Testing young lambs through their first grazing season is becoming an increasingly popular technique to monitor fluke risk, ...

Depending on the degree of the effects of the worms, animals fail to thrive, some become infertile and others will even abort ...

For liver fluke, Mr Colston said it is possible to find out if, or when, the infectious stage has appeared on a pasture by using some of this season’s lambs as sentinels and checking blood samples at ...

The rarest blood type is Rhnull. Unlike other blood types, people with Rhnull blood have no Rh antigens on their red blood cells. Healthcare professionals classify blood type according to the ...

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma. Widely distributed in the Middle East, southeast Asia, Latin America, and (mostly) ...

While everyone’s blood contains the same basic parts, there are eight different blood types. The type you have depends on genes you inherit from your biological parents. What makes your blood ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.