Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.

Doctors took a look inside his nose and saw signs of blood. When they broke out the nasal endoscope, they saw the source of ...

Leech therapy revived: Uttarakhand's Ayurvedic doctors use ancient cure for pain, circulation issues

DEHRADUN: The creature once notorious for clinging to human skin and sucking blood in the Himalayan foothills—leech, ...

A Refreshing Mountain Rinse Left This Man With a Nose Leech and Days of Bleeding

According to the report, the man visited an otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat) clinic 10 days into having nosebleeds from ...
The New York Times

This Leech Had an Appetite for Something Other Than Blood

A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Leeches May Be 200 Million Years Older Than We Thought—and Haven’t Always Sucked Blood

The Wisconsin site is famed for its preservation of ancient soft-bodied organisms like leeches—leading Kenneth Gass, a paleontologist at the Milwaukee Public Museum not involved with the study, to ...