As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old farmer in North Wollo, Raya Kobbo, he told them his saliva had tints of blood, occasionally bright red, according to a medical case report published March ...

Previously, the ETH researchers took cues from the humble leech to design a better suction cup that can transport medicine into the blood via the mucus membrane lining the inside of the human gut.

Ibn Battuta, a medieval Muslim traveler, described seeing the “flying leech” while visiting what is today Sri Lanka in the ...

Instead of feeding on blood, it hunts down and devours worms, particularly the Kinabalu Giant Earthworm ( Pheretima darnleiensis ), which can grow up to 70cm (2.3 feet) long! As its name suggests, the ...

Leech expert Roy Sawyer ... Well, even though these animals feed exclusively on it, blood alone is not able to sustain them; it lacks certain essential amino acids and vitamins.

As the people of Kashmir celebrate Navroz, the ancient tradition of leech therapy, locally known as Drekah, is experiencing a ...

My starting salary: $3.40 an hour. Right now, public employees (aka The Deep State aka blood-sucking leeches) are emptying their desks, removing their diplomas and certificates from the walls ...