“…They feed on the blood of various hosts to whom they attach themselves and drop off after becoming engorged. Inside the host they may inhabit the upper respiratory tract [1][2][3] and cause a variety of symptoms, mainly epistaxis, bleeding from the mouth, nasal obstruction, foreign body sensation, stridor, dyspnea, and dysphagia, sometimes ending in death. 4 We report six cases of leech infestations of the upper respiratory and digestive tract from Jordan.…”