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 ...

Heterobilharzia americana, a flatworm commonly known as liver fluke, was discovered in the Colorado River in Blythe, a community on the California-Arizona border, its first known presence in ...

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 ...

UC Riverside researchers gather samples from the Colorado River in Blythe, California. UC Riverside scientists confirmed, for the first time, that the fatal dog parasite is present in California.

An invasive, dog-killing parasite is now lurking in Southern California. In new research this week, scientists say they’ve confirmed the newfound spread of the flatworm Heterobilharzia americana to ...

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 ...