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Swarm of Parasite-Carrying Mosquitoes Traps Tourists in Their Cars in Horrifying Video

They can just inject worms under your skin. No biggie.

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Russia’s Lake Shchuchye is, by all accounts, a beautiful destination. A group of tourists who drove there recently wouldn’t know—they never made it out of their cars.

The footage, reported by NDTV, shows a swarm of mosquitoes so dense it blackened the sky above the Buryatia region. The tourists had come for a scenic lakeside trip. What they got was a cloud of insects so thick that commenters online compared it to a plague of locusts. They waited in their cars, hoping the swarm would pass. It didn’t. They left without seeing the lake.

🇷🇺 Die russische Region Burjatien erlebt einen so großen Mückenangriff, dass Schwärme dieser Insekten die Menschen daran hindern, aus ihren Autos zu steigen.........

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