Researchers at Texas State University say an invasive parasite that was likely introduced to the San Marcos and Comal rivers by aquarium dumpers is tearing a path through native fish species, and ...

The parasite made me easy to catch A common parasite that lives in fish eyeballs seems to be a driver behind the fish’s behaviour, pulling the strings from inside its eyes. When the parasite is ...

A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

Koi pla, made of raw fish ground with spices and lime, can contain parasitic flatworms responsible for cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) bile duct cancer.

Recent stories of parasites in raw fish may be alarming — yet scientists say parasites are crucial ...

A fluke can sometimes refer to a stroke of good luck or chance, but not in the context of the animal kingdom.The flukes that some Eel River chinook salmon experienced this fall were parasites that … ...

When the fish reaches the bird's stomach, the flukes break out of the fish's head and move into the bird's gut, stealing its food from within and sowing eggs in its droppings to be spread into marshes ...

California fish carry human-infecting parasites that can cause stroke or heart attack, researchers find Some of the fish contained thousands of the parasites ...

Flukes use fish as a host, and then complete their lifecycle when the fish is eaten by another bird. This is a common characteristic of fish parasites: starting and ending their life inside birds.

When the eye fluke (Diplostomum pseudospathaceum) is young, it forces the infected fish to act in a way that lessens the chance it will be eaten, making it stay near the bottom of the water and ...

Liver flukes, parasites that infect a human when raw or undercooked fish is eaten, are being investigated as the cause of a rare bile duct cancer among veterans who served in the Vietnam War.