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

Researchers want the parasite to be added to the diseases that public health officials are required to report. Researchers ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, June 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Freshwater game fish like bluegill, largemouth bass and black crappie in the U.S. commonly carry parasitic flatworms ...

While some other species in this class of parasitic flatworms, called trematodes, also have soldiers, those species' soldiers may still contain some inactive reproductive tissue, suggesting they ...

Flatworms are a major taxonomic group that includes internal parasites that can be bad actors, such as tapeworms and liver flukes. Land planarians, however, belong to a family of free-living ...

Liver flukes (fasciola) are parasitic flatworms that affect the bile duct and liver. These flatworms may cause liver fluke disease (fascioliasis). Liver flukes mainly affect livestock (sheep ...

The lancet liver fluke has a cunning — some might say horrifying — way of ensuring its survival. It turns ants into zombies. That’s how researchers who study this tiny parasitic flatworm ...

FRIDAY, June 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Freshwater game fish like bluegill, largemouth bass and black crappie in the U.S. commonly carry parasitic flatworms that can infect humans, a new study ...

Freshwater game fish in the U.S. now carry an exotic flatworm that can infect humans More than 90% of game fish like bluegill and largemouth bass tested carried the flatworms, called trematodes ...