Exposing India’s Blood Farmers: Keeping Slaves To Sell Their Blood To A Blood Bank

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For the last three years the man had been held captive in a brick-and-tin shed just a few minutes’ walk from where the farmers were drinking tea.

The marks on his arms weren’t the tell-tale signs of heroin addiction; they came from where his captor, a ruthless modern-day vampire and also a local dairy farmer and respected landowner named Papu Yadhav, punctured his skin with a hollow syringe.

He had kept the man captive so he could drain his blood and sell it to blood banks.

The man had managed to slip out when Yadhav had forgotten to lock the door behind him.

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The Resurgence Of Bedbugs In America

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Burnie The Boxing Bedbug

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Bedbugs are winning the fight in America.

Bedbugs were practically wiped out in the Fifties due to the widespread use of DDT, which has subsequently been proscribed.

It took them forty to fifty years to recover, but in 1995 they started their comeback.

In 2004, there were 82 instances of bed bugs in New York, but only five years later, in 2009, that figure had mushroomed to 10,985.

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