biting fish - and not piranhas!

This pic is taken from Mainichi News, reporting on the phenonemon of flesh-eating fish in a hot spring located in Hakone.

Doctor Fish are members of the carp family and they live in western Asia. Their scientific name is Garra rufa. They live in countries like Turkey, where there are hot springs, and feed off human skin, their rapacious appetites for people's scabs actually having a cleansing, healing effect on the donor, according to Sunday Mainichi. It's this ability that has earned the tiny fish their "doctor" moniker.