WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

More than just being the stuff of lake swimmers’ nightmares, the “leech-nado” video filmed by a Shedd Aquarium researcher gives Chicagoans one more reason to spurn Green Bay. What is a leech-nado?

The oldest leech ever discovered has turned out to be a shape shifter of expectations, preserving a body plan that looks nothing like the streamlined bloodsuckers that haunt horror movies and hospital ...

• Diana Grimmesey, MHA, RN, CWCN, Wound Care and Hyperbarics Director at MountainView Hospital Leeches and maggots have a long history in medicine. While the idea of using creepy-crawlies to treat ...

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Lying on a bed in a small room in a residential area of Vienna, I endeavour to suppress my squeals as three fat leeches crawl across my knee, and feast on my blood. I'm trying hard to put out of my ...