Hydatid tapeworm. Definitive host: Carnivores such as dogs, wolves, foxes, dingos. Intermediate host: Herbivore such as sheep, pigs, kangaroos. Prevalence & Distribution: The tapeworm infection is ...

Hydatid disease, also known as echinococcosis, or cystic hydatid disease, is caused by an infection with the larvae of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This parasite causes slow-growing ...

Hydatid tapeworms may form cystic echinococcosis, which we call Hydatid disease. Whipworm. Whipworms are transmitted just like roundworms and hookworms. However, they are much harder to get rid of.

The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. Humans exposed to tapeworm eggs in dog feces can ...

When 17-year-old Manirul Beg from Haldia came to Delhi a year ago, hoping to get herself treated for tuberculosis, little did ...

A 12-year-old boy suffering agonising headaches, projectile vomiting and blurry vision was diagnosed with a giant parastitic cyst in his brain. The cyst, lodged in the right side of his brain, cont… ...

They successfully saved the 26-year-old woman — who was 20 weeks pregnant — before running scans that revealed it was a hydatid cyst, a growth formed by a tapeworm infection that humans most ...

The tapeworm that the hunters had been infected with was identified as the species Echinococcus granulosus, also known as the hydatid worm, hyper tapeworm or dog tapeworm.

They successfully saved the 26-year-old woman — who was 20 weeks pregnant — before running scans that revealed it was a hydatid cyst, a growth formed by a tapeworm infection that humans most ...