It is estimated that about 100 species of foodborne trematodes can infect humans, including liver flukes, lung flukes, and intestinal flukes. Infection can result in severe liver and lung disease.

DURING laboratory breeding experiments with the New Zealand mud oyster, Ostrea lutaria Hutton, sectioned material showed specimens with gonads containing sporocysts of a digenetic trematode parasite.

An estimated 3,000 scaup and several hundred coot were found dead on Minnesota’s lake Winnibigosh. Waterfowl hunters and officials from the Minnesota DNR first ...