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 ...

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On July 29, 2008, Mark Siddall answered selected viewer questions about leeches large and small, the best way to remove one from your skin, whether he'd undergo leech therapy himself, and more. Please ...

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 ...

A chance video by a grad student relishing her first big field trip might help resolve an argument that’s raged among biologists for more than a century. The question: Can leeches jump? Yes, at least ...