Sheep and goat farmers in the Northeast have reported 20% losses from herds this winter due to liver fluke, a trematode or flatworm that infests the liver, causing damage and a deadly secondary ...

Liver fluke infections are expected to surge this winter, putting pressure on farmers to act quickly to protect herd and ...

THE winter of 1879–80 was marked by a widely-spread outbreak of the liver-rot amongst our sheep. The losses during that winter were estimated at three million sheep, or about one-tenth of the total ...

Liver fluke prevalence is predicted to be highest in the Midlands, west and northern areas of the country this year In abattoir examinations, on average 34% of herds have at least one animal with ...

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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 ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two domestic sheep were inoculated orally with 250 metacercariae of Fascioloides magna. One sheep died 4 mo after inoculation and 22 immature ...

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 ...