About Liver Flukes | Liver Flukes

• Fasciola parasites may cause an infectious illness referred to as fascioliasis. Typically, fascioliasis is extra frequent in individuals who stay or work round livestock (e.g., sheep, cattle, goats) in areas the place animal infections are frequent.

Two Fasciola species can infect individuals:

• Fasciola hepatica: the principle species that infects individuals. Different names are “the frequent liver fluke” and “the sheep liver fluke.”
• Fasciola gigantica: a associated species that primarily impacts home and wild animals however also can infect individuals.

Fascioliasis happens in all continents besides Antarctica, in over 70 international locations, particularly the place there are sheep, cattle, or goats.

• Typically, individuals can get Fasciola an infection by consuming uncooked watercress or different freshwater crops contaminated by larvae.
• Individuals can get contaminated by consuming contaminated water that they drink. Individuals also can get contaminated by consuming greens that they washed or irrigated with contaminated water.
• Individuals can not get Fasciola from one other individual.

Opisthorchis (Opisthorchis An infection)

Opisthorchis is a liver fluke (kind of parasitic worm) that may infect the liver, gallbladder, and bile duct.

• Opisthorchis is a part of the Opisthorchiidae household of liver flukes.
  • There’s Opisthorchis viverrini (i.e., the Southeast Asian liver fluke) and O. felineus (i.e., the cat liver fluke).
• You can’t get Opisthorchis from one other individual, and you can not get it from consuming untreated ingesting water.
• Opisthorchis infections can final for a number of years (the lifespan of the parasite).