Fascioliasis is an infectious disease, caused by the fluke Fasciola hepatica, that mainly parasitises herbivorous animals. Man is an accidental host. Infection results from eating raw aquatic vegetables with encysted metacercariae.The authors report 6 cases of human hepatic fascioliasis, admitted in the University of Coimbra hospital, Medicine III Service, in the last 15 years. Of the six cases, 4 were males an...