GREENWOOD, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Summer is a popular season to enjoy lake activities in The Upstate. We read your comments on social media about leech encounters, specifically on Goat Island at Lake ...

Pity the poor leech. For more than a century, it has been a poster child for the once-decrepit state of medicine. Nothing illustrates the relative backwardness of pre-20 th century health care than ...

Saving the graft was critical so the medical team proposed a treatment that surprised Lofgreen: leeches. “I was absolutely floored,” says the 31-year-old Idaho resident. “My initial reaction was, Okay ...

Scientists have uncovered video evidence that at least one species of terrestrial leech can jump. This behavior has been debated for over 100 years, and can now be put to rest following research by ...

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Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components necessary to suck blood. Stephanie Edwards is the marketing coordinator at ...

She’s a different kind of blood donor. Think your pet leeches off of you? An Oregon woman sent shudders across social media after revealing that she keeps leeches as pets — and even lets them suck her ...

Korean medics are using leeches and maggots to treat their patients. March 4, 2008— -- SEOUL — For seven years, Duck-Im Kim and her family tried everything they could to cure a rare skin disease ...

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When I was young we had a cabin in northern Wisconsin where my dad would invite his childhood friends to come and fish. One such friend had a fear for the leeches we used regularly for bait. He would ...