Baby Bathed In Sheep Blood

From a market in Peru, where locals believe sheep’s blood has medicinal properties. WARNING: Some may find these images disturbing.

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Baby Bathed In Sheep Blood
Gavon Laessig

Farmer Ana Avila bathes her sick baby in sheep’s blood at a slaughterhouse in the livestock market of Chupaca, near Huancayo City in Peru’s central Andes, August 18, 2012. Chupaca’s local residents believe that sheep’s blood has curative powers.

Image by Janine Costa / Reuters
Image by Janine Costa / Reuters
Image by Janine Costa / Reuters
Image by Janine Costa / Reuters

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