“The worms in fish are usually small and white or almost ... It can also be frozen and stored at –4°F for at least seven days. “The human health hazard from parasitic worms can be easily ...

However, this isn’t the end for the fish; the louse then ... serves as a reminder that human activities often result in far more devastating consequences. Parasites like Cymothoa exigua, on ...

Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny worm that lives in soil. It is a millimeter long and as wide as several human hairs. It is also transparent. "It gives us a rare window into something we couldn't ...

While a human would have to ingest several of these worms to feel the negative effects of their poison, they carry the same venom that can prove deadly when eating poorly-prepared puffer fish.

to zap the parasites and remove them, preserving the quality and taste of sliced fish for eating raw. Takao Namihira, an associate professor of electric pulse studies at Kumamoto University ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

Otters can get zoonotic parasites like worms from the fish that they eat, just like humans. If otters become infected with parasites from fish, then there is the potential for humans to get those ...

"The parasite itself blocks the blood supply to the tongue of the fish and then the tongue falls off," she said. Ms McRory said the parasites would "not affect human public health" but the import ...

There, worms and crabs can feed on this ... negatively affect marine mammals such as seal if the fish they rely on as food are also being eaten by humans. So we need to look at the bigger picture ...

In the case of this whale fall, which the researchers determined was a baleen whale, the ROVs' cameras saw octopuses, eelpout (eel-like, skinny fish), and bone-eating worms sharing in the feast.

A resurgence of rare and dangerous parasites in Vietnam is alarming health experts, with infections linked to undercooked ...