The Grass Doctor

About Parasite infection, need answer quickly?

The crowding of buffalo in a neighbot's pasture is criticized. Overcrowding limints available forage and substantially increases the potential for parasite infection. Parasites can be picked up when animals eat the larvae of flatworms and roundworms living in their pasture feed. How do the larvae of these animal parasites get into the grass?

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1. Cysts (worm eggs) are excreted in the feces onto the grass. This is called fecal-oral transmission.