2/10/2025: 

Since September, reports of acute liver fluke infections have been received through GD’s Veekijker. Pathological examinations during the same period also identified infections with liver flukes. The amount of precipitation and the temperatures during the past year were favourable for the development of liver flukes and the intermediate host snail. In the past, the Liver Fluke Forecast Working Group issued annual provisional (mid-September) and final (mid-November) forecasts based on various findings and data, including snail counts and determination of the infectious stages of the liver fluke in the snails. The activities of this working group were halted in 2020, meaning that there is no longer a clear picture of what livestock farmers can expect in terms of liver fluke disease and the occurrence of resistance to triclabendazole, the only substance that is active against all stages of the liver fluke.

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