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unusual facts about Fluke



Ballad of Easy Rider

CBS Records in the United Kingdom went a step further by reissuing "Wasn't Born to Follow" as the A-side of a single in September 1969, in the hopes that it might provide The Byrds with a fluke hit.

C. marginatum

Clinostomum marginatum, the yellow grub, a parasitic fluke species found in many freshwater fish in North America

Catatropis johnstoni

It was first described in 1956 by Martin, who had found cercariae (a larval stage of a fluke) released by the snail Cerithidea californica in southwestern California.

Connah's Quay

Mostly they caught fluke, which would then be sold from barrows pushed around the housing estates.

Cucurbitin

Cucurbitin causes degenerative changes in the reproductive organs of parasitic flatworms called flukes.

Dumb Numbers

A project 10-years in the making, Dumb Numbers began through a fluke songwriting request by filmmaker John Waters.

Eomecon

Extracts of this plant have been effective at eliminating the freshwater snail Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum, a fluke that causes schistosomiasis.

Filopaludina

from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.

Hardware Wars

They are found by young Fluke Starbucker, played by future multi-platinum award winning music producer, Scott Mathews who finds a video message saved on Arty-Deco.

Jan Burton

Jan Burton is a Welsh music producer best known for his work with ex-Fluke member Mike Tournier in their joint project, Syntax.

Ketchowla Station

In 1874 a flock of 7,000 sheep from Ketchowla was stopped in the Coorong on the way to market by inspectors who detected several animals infected with fluke within the flock.

Louise Fluke

Louise Fluke (February 9, 1900 - July 27, 1986) was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, and moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma with her family a year later.

Schistosomiasis vaccine

A Schistosomiasis vaccine is a vaccine against Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia, bilharziosis or snail fever), a parasitic disease caused by several species of fluke of the genus Schistosoma.


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