Any parasitic animal organism, usually microscopic, that lives in the blood of another animal and feeds on it.
From Greek 'haima' (blood) + 'zoon' (animal). Names blood-dwelling parasitic animals.
The hemozoon that causes sleeping sickness in Africa is spread by tsetse flies and has shaped human history—entire regions remained unpopulated for centuries because the disease made it impossible to keep livestock.
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