Your fact-checks will appear here
Infection with the pancreatic fluke Eurytrema pancreaticum and its effects on the pancreas
Yes — parasites can and have been found in the human pancreas, but such occurrences are rare, geographically uneven, and medically distinct from viral/bacterial causes of pancreatic disease; documente...
Eurytrema pancreaticum is a pancreatic fluke primarily of ruminants that only occasionally infects humans, and control strategies differ for livestock and the rare human case; veterinary anthelmintics...
Human infection with the pancreatic fluke Eurytrema pancreaticum is documented but extremely rare in the medical literature; most credible reports are isolated case reports or veterinary-focused revie...
The pancreatic fluke has a complex, terrestrial life cycle that requires two specific intermediate hosts—a land snail and an orthopteran insect—before reaching a mammalian definitive host, a design th...
Human pancreatic eurytremiasis is a rare, mostly incidental parasitic infection in people, with documented outcomes ranging from asymptomatic autopsy findings to obstructive jaundice and a mass-formin...
There is no credible evidence that a product described as "" can control (the pancreatic fluke) or cure diabetes; mainstream science shows Eurytrema spp. are primarily livestock parasites with rare hu...
Yes — multiple species of (including worms and larval tapeworms) have been documented to infect or damage the human pancreas, sometimes directly occupying pancreatic ducts or causing pancreatitis and ...
Routine stool (coproparasitological) tests can and do miss Eurytrema infections because standard fecal methods have low sensitivity for detecting the low egg output of pancreatic flukes, but modified ...