Life cycle of the Liver Fluke: Fasciola hepatica

This video of the life cycle of the globally significant parasite of sheep and cattle; the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica was produced in collaboration with parasitologist Dr Clive Bennett (University of Southampton, retired)
This video shows state of the art microscopy of the different stages of development throughout the life cycle including larval stages, mollusc infection and the hatching of juvenile flukes that cross the gut of sheep and cattle and migrate to the liver. We see the adult flukes living in a simulated bile duct, stages that we cannot normally see.
This video shows the enormous biotic potential of Fasciola sp. and what livestock farmers are up against to control its spread and severity.
Much more rarely it can also infect humans.

[@VG__]

The hardwork put behind making of this video is quite visible! Thanks for this uplaod...blessed to be able to see this!

[@tproc6642]

I have this infection and is very advanced. The standard stool test have never yielded a proper diagnosis. I expel hundreds in my stools when I do liver flushes with Epsom etc. The eggs I believe are causing my hip neck and spine pain, and the toxins are causing nerve and cns issues. I am all alone in this and western doctors are clueless with this stuff. Even when I show pics and explain that all the symptom line up...I need help.

[@JordanHowellMusic]

My girlfriend has dealt with candida overgrowth, and yes, from what I hear no doctors really even believe that parasites or things like this are affecting people! Yet from what I read, toxoplasmosis is affecting like tons of people?? Such a disparity there! What have you looked into for treatment so far if you don't mind me asking?

[@skwunkell3780]

I'm right there with you. I've been trying desperately to get help and it has cost me everything. I've been outcast as a delusional meth addict with delusional parisitosis, am so prominently infected, and have been for so long I fear the worst is not far off. I would like to be in contact with someone else who at least understands that this is real and can update each other with any treatment ideas etc.

[@skwunkell3780]

@@JordanHowellMusic same

[@danajackson3083]

@@skwunkell3780, I'm taking Ivermectin and Fenben. However, the critters just keep coming out... They appear dead, but I wonder how long I will have to keep this up. It has financially broke me too. I'm feeling your pain. I read somewhere treatment will have to be between 6 months and 3 or more years. Apparently , long standing infections require long treatment cycles. These things seem nearly impossible to kill. I've been fighting this around a year now. It makes me nauseous and sometimes I actually throw these up too!

[@stuarttheuma4658]

Zenclense

[@algireaux1364]

That was actually a pretty good documentary you did! I never knew F. Hepetica alive outside of their host. Also I love to see a behind the sences of how you people obtain this incredible video of the liver fluke, while still being alive!!

[@philipbudge3536]

What a beautiful video! I also can't wait to use this in my teaching. Thank you!

[@craighoover1495]

Gratifying to watch this as questions surrounding transmission were my thesis topic in 1983 at the University of Idaho. Cold winters were a significant adverse impact. Only ever saw adults in tracer calf livers and IgG antibodies in sera via ELISA.

[@oliverstevanovic5311]

Great topic.This is powerful parasite

[@normdavis8930]

Amazing work. I hope this can be done for avian and human schistosomes!

[@florianreyda2571]

This is an excellent video, and I plan to use it in my parasitology course. Thank you!

[@bhaktisudhadandasena3252]

This is awesome ,you describe all larva form and complete life cycle within 4 min ..... great job...I suggest my students to watch this video

[@AnnDonoghue]

Wonderful! Thanks for making this.

[@MgrKaterinaZimova]

Incredible! I always took flukes to be some boring entities from a black and white drawing of a life cycle. This is stunning!

[@jangun.4072]

Thanks for making this!!

[@molecularparasitologyatnui8158]

Excellent video

[@andreilukyanov4286]

what an absolutely amazing video, I suggest also to watch the old Diphyllobothrium Latum video, very high quality with comments.

[@experimental_microbiology]

Потрясающие кадры! Теперь стал нагляднее понятен жизненный цикл этих паразитов

[@johndalton2316]

Well done Clive! Graet video, and love the music! JohnD

[@SuyatiParamedikVeteriner76]

Thanks for amazing video. I'm never seen before.

[@marinavinaud7224]

Amazing video!!! congrats!!!

[@shiveshsatyakam7468]

Thank u sir for uploading such a wonderful video

[@AnjaliSoni-lt2oh]

It was a huge topic for me to cover of almost 4 to 5 minutes but here i learnt in four minutes 😊😊😊😊thanks😁😁

[@danielmetz831]

Beautiful cinematography! And wonderful organisms. Those miracidia are a real treat. My only question is... where's the love for the intramolluscan stages? The rediae need their time in the spotlight, too :-) (And they happen to be quite photogenic.)

[@aaryanmaurya07]

Great work,, Very much thanks❤❤

[@noahmueller709]

Amazing video

[@sameer0f]

absolutely amazing

[@sanughosh6540]

Very nice documentary

[@aucuneideejsp8891]

Exquisite photography !

[@DipteRai-cn2rx]

Thanks alot for making so good video, I got to learn alot from it ❤😊

[@littlevalleyfarm_huntervalley]

Very interesting to see this video and always great to learn more about it for our alpacas

[@rakshakbharat5846]

Thank you so much

[@satya9828]

Thanks for it❤

[@obsinaangobe2318]

it is beutifull and help video..thank you

[@aaryanmaurya07]

Really amazing❤❤❤

[@quitlife9279]

Adorable!

[@Veda-ge8bx]

Amazing 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@ramadassahithi5445]

So beautiful vedio

[@veterinarystudies]

Mind blowing

[@ayasamer3145]

Awesome

[@applepine1048]

pretty good. PRETTY DAMN GOOD YEAH!!!

[@Alexxalizada]

How are they regenerated in the sheep? there is no information about it.

[@episp1043]

Great

[@ChiefC822]

Is there a blood test for this? Or, just stool O/P?

[@missshukla6893]

SEQUENCE of laraval stage--- 1.)miracidium 2.)sporocyst 3.)radia 4.)cercoria 5.)metacoria

[@divyarajvanshi453]

Yes its short trick i learn frm youtube ms rcm 🙃🙃🙃

[@missshukla6893]

@@divyarajvanshi453 good

[@bad2thenucleus]

If these die and pass in stool, are they rolled up into a tiny tube (red and brown colors)?

[@munglescrunkus69]

Yes they look like small rolled up "tomato skins".

[@bad2thenucleus]

Update: from my research, I have not found any science studies demonstrating rolled up tomato like things in stool as being flukes… from my own analysis I have concluded the rolls to be skins of vegetables: bell peppers, tomatoes, onions. Flukes don’t have a thick skin layer which would roll up!

[@munglescrunkus69]

@@bad2thenucleus I have found a few websites describing dead flukes being passed as the "tomato skins". But like you stated no definitive scientific evidence proving this to be fact. This makes me wonder how they are supposed to look once dead and passed through our system? I have yet to see any real description of what a typical infected person's stool would look. As I believe to be infected myself this is very frustrating.

[@sayunasoulmesseng839]

​​@@bad2thenucleus They normally do not pass through stool when full grown. They can live up to 25 years in the liver and stomack and pancrease. They are quite big. When they come up by vomit they look more like peels of apple yet when you turn them upside down they are red. So most likely they roll up like apple peels when passing through the stool. Fasciola gigantica too big for small intestine.

[@freiheithoechstesgut4043]

@@bad2thenucleus If you take a medication they shed their skin that is when they dry out and roll up.

[@Abhishekverma-oj4in]

Woooooow❤❤❤❤

[@jenniferreed9992]

if only that lovely music played while the multiplied inside me. They are vicious creatures.

[@gopalsingh7524]

Fasciola hipetica was complet life sycle in to perasiets 1St sheep and 2nd snell ,,,🙏🙏🙏

[@mennazidan873]

Allah say in surah el nahl(which mean bee in ): Your Lord inspired the bee, saying: "Set up hives in the mountains and in the trees and in the trellises that people put up, then suck the juice of every kind of fruit and keep treading the ways of your Lord which have been made easy." There comes forth from their bellies a drink varied in colours, wherein there is healing for men. Verily there is a sign in this for those who reflect. Then allah who inspired this fluckes and every thing in our life❤

[@mawadamarei2703]

Who taught it this! SubhanAllah!

[@gopalsingh7524]

Sorry but it's a Rong life cycle 👎

[@sayunasoulmesseng839]

Yes they r very wrong. They are horrific suckers and complete entire cycle in human biody too