Parasites are often demonised and misunderstood ... lifelong bond and mate with each other over many years. As the blood of leeches contains DNA from their past meals, conservation scientists ...

He also describes how leeches contain the most powerful anticoagulant known to man. This short film is from the BBC series, Michael Mosley: Infested! Living with parasites. In this short film Dr ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms, fleas, head lice or bed bugs are even mentioned.

Leeches, members of the Hirudinae group of annelids, have been doing it for aeons, some 4,500 years in recorded history alone, starting in ancient Egypt. That’s since a full millennium and more before ...

A young man has to live with a leech-like brain-eating parasite who secretes a highly addictive blue fluid into man's brain routinely and in return, the man must seek out human victims for the ...