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 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 … ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

California fish carry human-infecting parasites that can cause stroke or heart attack, ... At no more than a few centimeters in length, the flukes – a class of flatworms ...

Latching onto the fish's gills, the flukes work their way through fine blood vessels to a nerve, which they crawl along to the brain. They don't actually penetrate the killifish's brain but form a ...

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.

'However, foodborne parasites from raw or undercooked fish are still a risk, including tapeworms and other flukes. 'The parasite that leads to liver cancer in Thailand is predominantly found in ...

For example, one of the parasites she studies, Scaphanocephalus, uses osprey as its definitive host, whereas other trematodes can live in all taxa of birds that eat fish. Because of that, there is a ...