An illustration of the worm’s complex life cycle by the study authors. Illustration: Baniya, et al/Pathogens. When these worms infect dogs, they cause a disease called canine schistosomiasis.

CDC graphic of the life cycle of Dicrocoelium dendriticum. CDC Occasionally, humans can be the host of the flukes at this stage of the cycle, and the parasites may infect our liver, leading in ...

You are a fool. 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 ...

The common liver fluke has an exceptional life cycle as it moves through snails, ants and grass-grazing herbivores. And now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen know a bit more about the ...

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.