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- Published on: 7 June 2004
- Published on: 7 June 2004A leech bite to the eye in TasmaniaShow More
Dear Editor
I read with great interest your case report on the leech bite to the eye sustained by a 4 year old girl in Germany - in particular that infestation of the human eye is very rare (“To our knowledge only one case is described in the literature”). While this may indeed be the case in Europe, here in Tasmania, the southernmost state of Australia, this event is evidently much more common and occasions a lot...
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