Their bite, Mark says, feels like a hot needle ... This is classic habitat for the giant Amazonian leech. These savannah swamps fill with one to four feet of freshwater in the wet season.

Vaginal bleeding as the result of a leech bite is very rare. There are only 3 case reports available in the Medline-indexed literature. [1,2,3] Vaginal bleeding in young girls as the result of a ...