The morbidity associated with a leech bite is mainly due to 2 factors -- mechanical obstruction of a vital organ and/or severe bleeding, as in our cases. Vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite is rare.

was passed off as the more effective medicinal leech. H decora, which was imported, does not bite as deep and so was less effective at draining blood. Declining leech numbers and increasing prices ...

Leech expert Roy Sawyer ... Mark already has three to four dozen chigger bites; he'd show you, but they're in, he whispers, "the nether regions." Perhaps that's why he looks a bit uncomfortable.

Vaginal bleeding as the result of a leech bite is a rare occurrence. We report 2 cases of vaginal bleeding in young girls that resulted from a leech bite and required treatment. Clinical ...