Learn about liver fluke infections and how to get rid of them. ... The only sure way to tell is to revisit your doctor, who can test your stool to see if liver fluke eggs are present.

Life Cycle of the Liver Fluke. Infected animals excrete immature eggs through their stool. These eggs develop in freshwater, using snails as an immediate host to undergo several developmental stages.

Researchers excavated 2,000-year-old feces from a latrine along the Silk Road in northwestern China, and found that it contained eggs from the Chinese liver fluke, a parasitic worm that is ...