According to Parasitologists working at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), farmers need to be aware of the risk of liver fluke infection in cattle and sheep during autumn and winter.

Once in the liver, the Post says, “The worms lay eggs, which are later excreted in the host animal’s feces. The feces, in turn, are eaten by snails, the fluke’s final destination.

Box: Liver fluke life cycle. the zombie ant: The liver fluke infects an ant’s brain causing it to clamp onto a blade of grass so that its next host – a cow, sheep, deer orother grazer – eats it.

Fascioliasis: A parasitic infection caused by liver flukes, often transmitted via contaminated water or vegetation. Fasciola hepatica: A species of liver fluke responsible for most cases of ...

The rare form of bile duct cancer is linked to liver fluke parasites in raw or poorly cooked river fish. (Sakchai Lalit / AP) World & Nation. More From the Los Angeles Times .

H. americana is one of many worm species nicknamed the liver fluke. Their immediate hosts are snails, which carry and release the larval, free-living form of the parasites into freshwater.

Last spring, scientists with UC Riverside’s department of nematology discovered the parasite Heterobilharzia americana, a flatworm commonly known as a liver fluke, along the banks of the ...

Moose researcher Jen Grauer samples water for giant liver fluke in Barnum Pond in the northern Adirondacks in July 2022. Continuing research on Adirondack moose is showing that the population is ...