Bloodsucking Sea Critters ‘Not an Australian Thing’ Say Experts

Bloodsucking Sea Critters ‘Not an Australian Thing’ Say Experts
A male and female sea louse. (7Barrym0re [Public domain], GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) via Wikimedia Commons)
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An Australian teenager was thoroughly shocked on Saturday night, along with the biologists from around the world, when he emerged from the ocean to find his ankles bleeding profusely.

Sixteen-year-old Sam Kanizay had been on instagram while standing in the cool ocean water for half an hour after a soccer game. But when he went to put his shoes on, he realized that blood was pouring from his ankles where the water had been lapping, and it wasn’t stopping. After noticing thousands of tiny pin-holes in his legs, Kanizay’s parents rushed him to the hospital.