Those who are terrified of climate change, artificial intelligence or unassembled Ikea furniture have never heard of Dicrocoelium dendriticum, an insidious, miniscule flatworm more commonly known as ...

Queen's University Belfast is spearheading an £1 million international research effort to combat liver fluke – a parasite which causes disease in livestock, resulting in billions of pounds in losses ...

An invasive, dog-killing parasite is now lurking in Southern California. In new research this week, scientists say they’ve confirmed the newfound spread of the flatworm Heterobilharzia americana to ...

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 Colorado ...

Sea turtles, as long-lived and migratory reptiles, are increasingly vulnerable to parasitic infections that can undermine their health and conservation status. Among the various pathogens, blood ...

Doctors in California found a throng of flatworm parasites overrunning a man’s innards—and they caught one of the little beasts on a horrifying video. The case began innocently enough: a 40-year-old ...

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time identified a 'programmed cell death' pathway in parasitic worms that could one day lead to new treatments for one of the ...

Surgery is not strictly a matter of cutting into patients and cutting something out. The A.M.A. last week heard about a new operation designed not to cut out but to filter out the tiny parasites that ...