The site of the leech bite was treated, and the farmer was given iron supplements to take for a month to manage his anemia, doctors said. Leeches are blood-sucking animals that have two suckers ...

The morbidity associated with a leech bite is mainly due to 2 factors -- mechanical obstruction of a vital organ and/or severe bleeding, as in our cases. Vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite is rare.

was passed off as the more effective medicinal leech. H decora, which was imported, does not bite as deep and so was less effective at draining blood. Declining leech numbers and increasing prices ...

Leech expert Roy Sawyer ... Mark already has three to four dozen chigger bites; he'd show you, but they're in, he whispers, "the nether regions." Perhaps that's why he looks a bit uncomfortable.

The patients described the initial leech bite as slightly painful, but reported no other discomfort. Those treated conventionally reported no change in their pain. Marian Gower, who runs Biopharm ...