FDA: OK to market bloodsuckers

The government has lent its seal of approval to a marketing an age-old medical device -- leeches.

Leeches are already widely used in American hospitals, and companies that raised and sold them here before 1976 were allowed to continue doing so. However, the medical device law passed that year required newcomers to the field to seek approval.

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Leeches are widely used not only in American hospitals, they seem to be appearing in many American institutions: city hall's, schools, ...

Theyre really very good...you put them around the cut or wound and it slows down the bleeding by using a natural chemical in its mouth.