These include blood sucking leeches and liver fluke worms which are a challenge to livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda.In Uganda the major challenge is liver fluke worms ...

As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old farmer in North Wollo, Raya Kobbo, he told them his saliva had tints of blood, occasionally bright red, according to a medical case re ...

Leeches are a group of segmented worms primarily found in freshwater habitats, although a few species live in the oceans and on land. Despite their reputation, many don’t feed on blood, instead eating ...

LEECHES are adapted by their structure and physiology to an ectoparasitic, blood-sucking mode of life. Some have secondarily become predators, but none has obvious adaptations to endoparasitism.

Photomacrograph of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Leeches are aquatic, blood sucking, segmented worms, which mainly feed on mammalian blood. In a single feed they can consume over 3 times their ...

Instead of feeding on blood, it hunts down and devours worms, particularly the Kinabalu Giant Earthworm ( Pheretima darnleiensis ), which can grow up to 70cm (2.3 feet) long! As its name suggests, the ...

A mobile medical team working in rural Ethiopia met a man with unexplainable bloody spit — then found an animal living in his throat, doctors said. As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old ...

It's a great time of year to meet with the giant Amazonian leech. Its kind is just emerging from the bottom muck, where they dug themselves in to wait out the three-month dry season. They'll be ...

As the people of Kashmir celebrate Navroz, the ancient tradition of leech therapy, locally known as Drekah, is experiencing a ...

My main area for responsibility are the Annelid collections at the Museum. They are the segmented worms incorporating Polychaetes, Oligochaetes and leeches. However I also manage some of the 'worm ...