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Leeches are making a medical comeback – here’s why we should celebrate it

By Mike Jeffries, Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle

As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year.

For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis has been bred in captivity at London zoo, part of a longer-term project to help this fascinating if unloved creature. Once widespread in the UK, the medicinal leech is now rare due mainly to habitat…

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