Southern Californians have been warned that more than 90 percent of popular game fish have been found to contain invasive, ...

In Southern California, a quiet but widespread public health risk has taken root in the region’s freshwater fishing spots.

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

After transforming itself inside one of the snails, the worm ventures out to find a mammal ... It can cause swimmer's itch, a red rash where it penetrates human skin. But it's not able to cause ...

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 ...

Red Worms: Can be transmitted to humans ... but it can make fish look ugly. The parasite starts its life in a bird, then goes into a snail, and then into a fish. The fish must then be eaten ...

A gruesome worm that lives in freshwater snails but can infect humans is on the rise in European holiday hotspots, experts have warned. Separate data, seen by MailOnline, also shows the number of ...

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

A large percentage of snails collected ... it can cause a red rash called swimmer’s itch. The parasite does not jeopardize drinking water from the Colorado River, as it is a large worm that ...

Through subsequent DNA testing in a lab, the team learned both species of snails were “actively shedding this worm,” Dillman ... resulting in a nasty red rash. Most cases do not require ...

The chickens fed on snails, dung beetles ... time to time to select good feeding locations. The gape worm has a characteristic red colour and is thus also called the red tracheal worm.