"Kiss of the Vampire" Transilvania Leech medical leeches on the cervix [13] William Campbell and Satoshi

[13] William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for its discovery and applications

This is a couple of leeches especially selected for mating

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leech collector

"Kiss of the Vampire" Transilvania Leech medical leeches on the cervix [13] William Campbell and Satoshi"The Kiss of the Vampire" Enormous Leeches from Transilvania are beautifully colored leeches. They are also believed to be the basis of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel which portrays a human being a count, who really possessed leech like behavior and was himself believed to be a leech disguised in human form. Some Hirudo Verbana species of this leech become very large in size and are preferred kept as leech pets by some people because they are easy to