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 ...

A project in Scotland has successfully hatched the first baby medicinal leeches to help restore their population. Twenty juvenile leeches were born over the past month at Highland Wildlife Park. The ...