As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a ...

Yang Benbiao, an ambitious young man from Yangmiao village in Yanggu county, Shandong province, has found success in an unconventional field—medicinal leech farming. Despite the general aversion ...

Andrew Plucinski’s leeches are picky about skin. When offered the chance to bite a person who bathes in smelly soap they recoil, even when they’re hungry. Leeches prefer their humans unseasoned. In ...