A liver fluke is a parasitic worm. You can become infected after eating contaminated raw or undercooked freshwater fish or watercress. Infections are usually treated with a drug called ...

Liver flukes (fasciola) are parasitic flatworms ... Ensuring that wild edible aquatic plants such as watercress are well-cooked before eating Avoiding food and water from suspected contaminated ...

The doctors extracted some of the worms and identified them as the common liver fluke Fasciola hepatica ... onto freshwater vegetation, such as watercress. If any unlucky ruminants or humans ...

Watercress is grown in glasshouses for sale in food outlets. The human version has two stages. In the first, young flukes migrate through the liver causing tenderness, organ enlargement ...

Up to 2.4 million people are now parasitised by liver fluke ( the chief avenue of human infection is by eating watercress contaminated by liver fluke cysts). In Ireland (where the disease is ...

“Watercress is often grown in or near bodies of water, making it potentially vulnerable to contamination from harmful pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella, or parasites like liver flukes if the ...

On rare occasions, commercial watercress can be contaminated by liver flukes due to livestock upstream (cooking kills these parasites). To enjoy raw watercress worry-free and transform your grass ...

The lancet liver fluke has a cunning — some might say ... although people can pick it up from tainted watercress or drinking water, Fredensborg says. “This research shows that natural ...

We don’t eat it, though, as my Soay sheep and cows drink there and there is a risk of it being contaminated with liver fluke. Edward Scales from Hairspring Watercress (www.hairspring.org.uk ...