Below we provide to you some of the interesting medical leeches facts. If you would like to get to know more about our leeches we use, please contact us by phone or mail us. We will offer you professional and 100% effective help.

Some of the interesting facts:

• commonly there are more that 650 different species of leeches know to us,
• around 18 inches - that is the length of the body of one of the largest leeches found in its natural habitat,
• some of the leeches may feed on fishes rather than sucking blood,
• although it seems impossible leeches have 32 brains,
• the babies of medical leeches are laid within a cocoon - The Amazon leeches carry their babies in their stomachs,
• it was about 1000 B.C. that the first leech was used as a medical treatment,
• medical leeches have a very similar nervous system to that found in humans and so they are often used to find out about the problems characteristic to humans,