When the bell rang at Simai Secondary School on Tanzania Zanzibar Pemba Island on Monday the classroom buzzed with eager ...

British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Advert Locals are reportedly sourcing the fish from a water location in the Mekong region, which contains parasitic flatworms - or live flukes - which are consumed by the fish. These flatworms contain ...

The water that these aquatic beasts are farmed from contains parasitic flatworms. According to medical experts, these flatworms can cause bile duct cancer and that’s why East Asia reportedly has the ...

The oval-shaped body belongs to a marine flatworm, a group of invertebrates that can range in color from see-through to neon and seemingly glide along the bottom with hairlike protrusions all over ...

That, she says, is proven by the presence of Schistosoma mansoni, a water-borne parasitic flatworm that enters the body through the skin and takes up residence in the intestines, where it lays eggs.

Her blood work was taken and she was diagnosed with salmon poisoning, “a bacterial infection caused by eating raw salmon that contains a parasitic flatworm,” the zoo said. Salmon poisoning is ...

Salmon poisoning is caused by the bacteria Neorickettsia helminthoeca, which is transmitted through a parasitic flatworm or “fluke.” Without treatment, salmon poisoning in dogs is often fatal.

Classified biologically as protozoa and helminths (but better known as tapeworms, flatworms and roundworms), it is difficult to know how widespread parasites are globally because in many countries ...