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Potentially fatal dog parasite found in Southern California river: Report

Eleven dogs in California counties have been infected with a parasite since 2019, leading researchers to investigate a river in Blythe, where the dogs had swum.
Researchers collected over 2,000 snails in the river, a part of the Colorado River, and discovered several were host species of the liver fluke.
The infected dogs had all swum in the river in Blythe, a town on the Arizona Border east of Joshua Tree National Park in Riverside County.

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