In something straight out of HBO's hit zombie show The Last of Us, a parasite has been found to be able to control the minds of ants, forcing them to do its bidding. The parasites, called lancet liver ...

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 ...

It takes over the brains of ants, causing them to cling to blades of grass against their will. The lancet liver fluke has an exceptional lifecycle strategy, in which snails, ants and grazing animals ...

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Using heatmaps, CU Boulder researchers find that certain parasites congregate in certain parts of amphibians’ bodies, often to dire physical consequences Trematodes, also known as flukes, are a class ...

A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has completed the first study of the effects of a simultaneous infection with blood flukes (schistosomes) and the bacterium Helicobacter pylori—a ...

A parasite that could potentially kill your pet dog has been discovered lurking in a section of the Colorado River that runs through Southern California. This parasite is a flatworm named ...

Liver flukes (fasciola) are parasitic flatworms that affect the bile duct and liver. These flatworms may cause liver fluke disease (fascioliasis). Liver flukes mainly affect livestock (sheep, goats, ...

Imagine coming-to, jaws gripping the top of a swaying blade of grass, unaware of how you got there. That's the reality for ants infected with the lancet liver fluke, a tiny parasitic flatworm. Liver ...