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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...