The freshwater fish it is made from are at high risk of being contaminated with parasitic worms known as liver fluke. Once in ...

Opisthorchiasis, caused by the cat liver fluke, can infect domestic animals ... the stomach and intestines. How to avoid ...

Though rarely found in Americans, the parasites infect an estimated ... was “more likely than not” caused by liver flukes from the uncooked fish he and his unit in Vietnam ate when they ...

Context: Fish-borne trematode is a worldwide problem, with the number of people infected by liver flukes alone estimated ... Results: Degeneration of the parasites was slowed by cooling ...

They described the fish—which belong ... one also had a parasite stuck to its tail, a juvenile freshwater mussel known as a glochidium. “It was a complete fluke,” Jochen tells the Australian ...

Several freshly killed freshwater fish, C armatus ... Since nonmotile parasites may still be viable, the researchers excysted the immature fluke to study their motility. Motility was estimated ...