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Last spring, scientists with UC Riverside’s department of nematology discovered the parasite Heterobilharzia americana, a flatworm commonly known as a liver fluke, along the banks of the Colorado ...

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Scientists have confirmed that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through California. UC Riverside scientists confirm, for the first time, that a ...

For years, land flatworms were thought to spread mostly through plant sales. Worms or their eggs would hitch a ride in potted soil, move through nurseries, and end up in new gardens. That explained ...

A study published in the journal PeerJ, conducted by a researcher from the Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity (ISYEB) at the French National Museum of Natural History, in ...

A dog-killing parasite that was believed to only exist in Texas and other Gulf Coast states has been discovered as far west as California for the first time, scientists have warned. The worm can cause ...

UC Riverside scientists confirm, for the first time, that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through California. The parasite, Heterobilharzia ...