A young boy from China had a massive leech pulled out from a young boy’s throat after it lived there for over 1 year.

The boy, who is reportedly 5, is from Lincang City, which is located in the Southern part of China.

It is reported that the boy was complaining of shortness of breathing, loud snoring, and chronic sore throat during the evening.

After a medical checkup, the doctors found that there was something living in the trachea of the 5-year-old boy.

Images that were shared with the public, shows a doctor and the medical staff inserting a device in the boy’s throat before they pulled out a massive 2.8-inch leech.

The parasite then curled up after it got removed from the body of the 5-year-old boy.

The doctor said that the leech could have entered the windpipe of the boy after the 5-year-old drank untreated water.

 

Doctors also reminded children to avoid drinking water from unsafe areas.

Although it is extremely rare that leeches could end up living in human bodies for this long, but such instances have been recorded before, and some were also recorded in China.

The WHO (World Health Organization) estimated that around 80 percent of human diseases, which include Hepatitis A, polio, cholera, and more are caused after drinking dirty water.

The government in China and expert doctors from all over the world recommend humans to boil water before drinking it if they do not have access to clean water.

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