The parasites are called trematodes. Two species of the flatworms were discovered in California’s freshwater fish, according ...

A UC San Diego study finds that more than 90% of freshwater game fish in Southern California had parasites capable of ...

California fish carry human-infecting parasites that can cause stroke or heart attack, researchers find - Some of the fish ...

A new study by UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography reveals a startling finding: More than 90% of popular ...

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms ...

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Female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, devastates women amid poor sanitation and medical misdiagnoses.

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Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good news for when it comes to controlling schistosomiasis, a disease caused by ...