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If you are referring to the bloodsucking type leech that attaches to people and animals, and if you are asking how to detach them, saturate a paper towel, paper napkin, or clean rag with either household ammonia cleaner or a chlorine based bleach such as Clorox, and hold it on the leech for a minute or two.  It will almost always detach and most of the time it will die.  Another method is to use regular table or pickling salt, hold a small container of salt over the leech for a couple of minutes.  The leech will dehydrate and die, then it can easily be removed.  Be sure to clean the bite and treat it with a good antibiotic, such as Neosporin or something similar.   

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