Why We Used to Cook Pork Well Done During the 20th century, pork had a bit of a reputation, specifically as a vehicle for Trichinella spiralis, a parasitic roundworm that causes trichinosis. This ...

Foodborne parasites are not only those whose etiological agents deliberately use food for their transmission, such as Fasciola hepatica, which encysts as metacercariae in vegetables, or Trichinella sp ...

It encysts on the vegetation waiting to be eaten by a ruminant, where it migrates through the liver causing the tissue damage and disease observed above. Fascioloides magna, or the American deer fluke ...

It encysts on the vegetation waiting to be eaten by a ruminant, where it migrates through the liver causing the tissue damage and disease observed above. Fascioloides magna, or the American deer fluke ...

It encysts on the vegetation waiting to be eaten by a ruminant, where it migrates through the liver causing the tissue damage and disease observed above. Fascioloides magna, or the American deer fluke ...

The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were infested with parasites, many of which caused anemia and other debilitating conditions. According to a new meta-analysis of prior research on Egyptian mummies ...

What makes this host-parasite relationship special is the worm encysts itself into the brain of the fish. By doing this, it changes the locomotive behavior of the killifish, which can cause it to jerk ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that spreads widely around the world, affecting more than a third of the world's population (1). In healthy, immuno-functioning hosts, acute infection progresses to ...

But back to Inside Story, where Amis writes, “At a certain point, usually in late middle age, something congeals and solidifies and encysts itself—and that’s your lot, that’s your destiny.

The newly-hatched worms first infect a snail. After swimming free of its snail host, the worm penetrates the skin of a fish, where it encysts and remains, causing a condition known as black spot ...