Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...
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 ...
The cone snail uses consomatin to paralyze its prey. The toxin stops blood sugar levels from rising, which is fatal for fish.
The state agency warns that the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. They note that likelihood ...
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 ...
Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether cone snails ...
Apple and mystery snails are illegal to possess in Georgia ... complications or even death in rare cases. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) notes that the parasite does not replicate in ...