Some of the fish, they noted, carried "thousands of the parasites." The second parasite, Centrocestus formosanus, was detected at two of the five locations and in 91% of the fish.

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Two species of fish-borne parasites have been found in freshwater fish routinely caught for consumption. Researchers say people could be eating the fish in ways that are conducive to transmission.

“The parasites are here in the U.S., and they’re infecting fish that people are eating,” said Ryan Hechinger, an ecologist and parasitologist at Scripps and the senior author of the study.

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For Mississippi State University, it’s that time when the rodeo paves the way, allowing the sampling of hundreds of fish.

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Caryophyllidean tapeworms represent one of the earliest diverging groups of eucestodes and are distinguished by their monozoic, non-segmented body plan. These parasites predominantly infect ...