Wildlife authorities are asking for anglers, boaters and lake visitors across Georgia to help prevent the spread of invasive ...

Like worms, these freshwater snail species are known as "dentritivores." Others are filter feeders, like krill and some ...

Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...

The circular and oval shapes in the center of this image are a group of larvae (1) from a parasitic worm known as a schistosome, or blood fluke. They are shown developing within their host, a ...

Registration is open for the 16th annual trail race at Southern Adventist University, a collaboration between the ...

Schistosomiasis is a chronic and debilitating tropical parasitic disease caused by schistosomes (Schistosoma spp.), transmitted by freshwater snails. It is a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) of both ...

The state agency warns that the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. They note that likelihood ...

The squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to ...

Aquatic snails are also collected and preserved as a taxonomic record of snail diversity, as well as being used in research on disease transmission. Maintaining a record of parasites and hosts through ...