In 2012, a Japanese man with a fondness for chilled salmon came down with what physicians described as a 'watery” bout of gastrointestinal distress. This was uncomfortable enough, but his illness took ...

Scientists in the Czech Republic have described the first domestic case of infection with a parasite. Diphyllobothriasis (dibothriocephalosis) is caused by the human broad tapeworm Dibothriocephalus ...

Metazoan parasites represent a diverse assemblage of organisms, including flatworms (monogeneans and digeneans), cestodes, nematodes and acanthocephalans, which colonise a range of freshwater fish ...

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms capable of infecting humans, scientists warn. The parasites — two species of ...