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A seabream shipment has reached the port with a parasitic infestation known as tongue-eating lice. The shipment was denied entry to UK and was sent back.

Cymothoa exigua, otherwise known as the tongue-eating louse, were spotted in the mouths of a shipment of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K.

Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority made the discovery at Port of Felixstowe of the tongue eating parasites in a seabream containment.