Fish are infected with 283 times more parasitic worms than they were 40 years ago. Anisakis worms can infect a variety of marine fish and squid, as well as marine mammals such as whales and dolphins – ...

Monogenean parasites represent a diverse group of flatworms that predominantly infest the gills and external surfaces of marine fish. These ectoparasites are of increasing concern for both wild ...

Diners may be more likely to utter those words today than in decades past, as the abundance of parasitic Anisakis worms infecting fishes around the globe is now 283 times what it was in the 1970s, ...

While it might seem shocking, finding a worm in cooked fish isn’t rare. In fact, many saltwater fish, including halibut, can host parasitic worms. These worms are often killed by proper freezing or ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once “invisible” fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Katherine Maslenikov carefully plucked a young walleye pollock specimen from a glass jar full of ethyl alcohol. The critter’s eye and insides were missing, some carefully packed in a nearby vial ...

Southern Californians have been warned that more than 90 percent of popular game fish have been found to contain invasive, parasitic worms that can infect humans. Two species of the parasitic ...

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More than 90% of popular freshwater fish in Southern California are carrying human-infecting parasites, researchers say. This poses a significant danger for those who like to eat freshly caught ...

More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. Researchers said the ...