A liver fluke is a parasitic worm. You can become infected after eating contaminated raw or undercooked freshwater fish or watercress. Infections are usually treated with a drug called triclabendazole ...

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, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs this year will initiate a mortality study of Vietnam-era veterans to determine whether individuals who were stationed in Southeast Asia are more likely to develop a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of Vietnam War veterans may be infected with parasites called liver flukes, which can ...

Three Long Island congressional representatives are demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs study the prevalence of the cancer-causing liver fluke among Vietnam veterans, to determine whether ...

FRAMINGHAM -- Liver flukes are one of only two biological organisms known to cause cancer, and now a Framingham-based startup housed in an old industrial building will be developing a test for it. The ...

Some of the hundreds of U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War who suffered from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare bile duct cancer believed to be linked to liver fluke parasites in raw or poorly cooked river fish ...

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 ...

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 ...