What to know about a liver fluke. Learn about the life cycle of liver flukes, the symptoms of liver fluke infections, how infections are diagnosed, and how you can prevent and treat liver fluke ...

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 the liver fluke infects the ant, several hundred parasites invade the insect’s body. Only one of these parasites will make it to the brain where it then influences the ant’s behavior.

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.

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.

Earlier in the season, the risk is posed by immature fluke that cause significant damage migrating to the liver but are too young to lay eggs that show up on a FEC. “We’re lucky to have a range of ...

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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 ...