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

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Credit: RZSS/Cover Images A project to help restore Scotland’s population of medicinal leeches has welcomed the arrival of the first babies. Over the past month, twenty of the wriggly juveniles have ...

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This includes flesh-eating leeches and giant earthworms, which rise out of soil to the surface when in heavy rain. The leeches come on top of reports that poisonous toads have invaded the camp ...

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