A costly parasite is quietly wreaking havoc on farms across the country — and scientists say farmers urgently need better ...

Flukes are parasites that need to get inside a sheep's intestine to reproduce. To do this they, as young adults, get ejected out into the cold, cold world via the sheep's bladder function.

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.

Flukes are parasites that need to get inside a sheep's intestine to reproduce. To do this they, as young adults, get ejected out into the cold, cold world via the sheep's bladder function.

Liver fluke life cycle. Credit: CDC In the man’s case, he reported recently emigrating from Mexico, where he had worked on a farm and eaten watercress.

A mechanistic hydro-epidemiological model of liver fluke risk. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018; 15 (145): 20180072 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0072 ...

Sheep and goat farmers in the Northeast have reported 20% losses from herds this winter due to liver fluke, a trematode or flatworm that infests the liver, causing damage and a deadly secondary ...

Sheep and goat farmers in the Northeast have reported 20% losses from herds this winter due to liver fluke, a trematode or flatworm that infests the liver, causing damage and a deadly secondary ...

EVERYONE who is interested in agriculture is aware that liver-fluke or sheep-rot is popularly associated with one or another of our common plants. Halliwell gives “sheep-killing” as a name for ...

News Published: 19 October 1882 The Rot in Sheep, or the Life-History of the Liver-Fluke A. P. THOMAS Nature 26, 606–608 (1882) Cite this article ...