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.

Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

Vaginal bleeding as the result of a leech bite is very rare. There are only 3 case reports available in the Medline-indexed literature. [1,2,3] Vaginal bleeding in young girls as the result of a ...

Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

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.

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 ...