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11 May 2023

A Colubridae family snake skin on the wall hole of an abandoned house at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 11/05/2023. Snakes shed their skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin. On hot summer days, snakes seek out shade and shelter like tall grass or beneath covers like rocks, shady trees, decks, or porches to stay cool.

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11 May 2023

A Colubridae family snake skin on the wall hole of an abandoned house at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 11/05/2023. Snakes shed their skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin. On hot summer days, snakes seek out shade and shelter like tall grass or beneath covers like rocks, shady trees, decks, or porches to stay cool.

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11 May 2023

A Colubridae family snake skin on the wall hole of an abandoned house at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 11/05/2023. Snakes shed their skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin. On hot summer days, snakes seek out shade and shelter like tall grass or beneath covers like rocks, shady trees, decks, or porches to stay cool.

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11 May 2023

A Colubridae family snake skin on the wall hole of an abandoned house at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 11/05/2023. Snakes shed their skin to allow for further growth and to remove parasites that may have attached to their old skin. On hot summer days, snakes seek out shade and shelter like tall grass or beneath covers like rocks, shady trees, decks, or porches to stay cool.

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26 February 2023

An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body to begin its blood meal at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 24/02/2023. Part of the genus Anopheles, the mosquitoes are capable of carrying and transmitting one of the five single-celled parasite species that cause malaria. Researchers looked at a dataset spanning from 1898 to 2016 and found malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes' territory grew southward by an average of about 310 miles during that 118-year time span. According to WHO's latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020.

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26 February 2023

An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body to begin its blood meal at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 24/02/2023. Part of the genus Anopheles, the mosquitoes are capable of carrying and transmitting one of the five single-celled parasite species that cause malaria. Researchers looked at a dataset spanning from 1898 to 2016 and found malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes' territory grew southward by an average of about 310 miles during that 118-year time span. According to WHO's latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020.

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26 February 2023

An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body to begin its blood meal at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 24/02/2023. Part of the genus Anopheles, the mosquitoes are capable of carrying and transmitting one of the five single-celled parasite species that cause malaria. Researchers looked at a dataset spanning from 1898 to 2016 and found malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes' territory grew southward by an average of about 310 miles during that 118-year time span. According to WHO's latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020.

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26 December 2022

The greater coucal or crow pheasant (Centropus sinensis), is a large non-parasitic member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes found in Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are weak fliers and are often seen clambering about in vegetation or walking on the ground as they forage for insects, eggs, and nestlings of other birds. They have a familiar deep resonant call which is associated with omens in many parts of its range. This is a large species of the cuckoo at 48 cm. A greater coucal bird in search of food sits on a bamboo mats wall, which contained with termite nest, at Tehatta, west Bengal; India on 26/12/2022

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22 May 2022

A fed tick (Ixodes ricinus) is seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on May 21, 2022.

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22 May 2022

A fed tick (Ixodes ricinus) is seen on a human skin in this illustration photo taken in Poland on May 21, 2022.

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22 May 2022

A fed tick (Ixodes ricinus) is seen on a human skin in this illustration photo taken in Poland on May 21, 2022.

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23 January 2022

Ryan Cole, Ph.D, speaks at the Defeat Mandates Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 2022. Cole, an Idaho-based physician, came under fire for suggesting the anti-parasitic drugs ivermectin, typically used for infections caused by roundworms and threadworms, and hydroxychloroquine, typically used to treat malaria, could treat COVID-19. Complaints by fellow Idaho physicians to the Washington Medical Commission allege that this advice further strained emergency rooms in the state.

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#6733430

19 May 2021

A health worker shows a tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. Some Indian state governments have plans to dose their populations with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to protect against severe COVID-19 infections as their hospitals are overrun with patients in critical condition. But, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the use of this medicine in treating COVID-19 patients.

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#6733432

19 May 2021

This picture shows the tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. Some Indian state governments have plans to dose their populations with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to protect against severe COVID-19 infections as their hospitals are overrun with patients in critical condition. But, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the use of this medicine in treating COVID-19 patients.

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#6733434

19 May 2021

This picture shows the tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. Some Indian state governments have plans to dose their populations with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to protect against severe COVID-19 infections as their hospitals are overrun with patients in critical condition. But, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the use of this medicine in treating COVID-19 patients.

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#6733436

19 May 2021

This picture shows the tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. Some Indian state governments have plans to dose their populations with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to protect against severe COVID-19 infections as their hospitals are overrun with patients in critical condition. But, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the use of this medicine in treating COVID-19 patients.

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