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Symptoms:

Environmental issues

Echinococcosis is a extremely harmful disease and worldwide, there may be in excess of one million people living with the disease at any one time. Even with treatment, people often face reduced quality of life. Annual costs associated with cystic echinococcosis are estimated to be 3 billion US dollars for treating cases and losses to the livestock industry.

Many symptoms:

Pain in the upper right part of the abdomen

Bloody sputum

Chest pain

Cough

Fever

Severe skin itching

How to decrease exposure and how to prevent the disease:

Cystic echinococcosis is a preventable disease as it involves domestic animal species as definitive and intermediate hosts. Many ways are to increase hygiene when slaughtering animals and the deworming of dogs.

Diagnosis and tests:

The main way they test for the disease is ultrasound. Some other ways include abdominal CT scan

abdominal X-ray

blood test

chest x-ray

liver function tests

thoracic CT scan

Emerging or

re-emerging?

Cystic echinococcosis is re-emerging in countries where modern diagnostic and control options are not being used.

Citations

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/echinococcus/overview.html

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs377/en/

shortwhitecoats.com/2011/top-ten-most-disgusting-medical-conditions

dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/html/Echinococcosis.htm

Type of pathogen:

Parasitic tapeworm

Treatment:

Transmission:

Infection is commonly through the ingestion of soil, water or food (e.g. vegetables) contaminated with the parasite’s eggs shed in the feces of the carnivores.

Four options exist for the treatment of cystic echinococcosis:

1.percutaneous treatment of the hydatid cysts with the PAIR (Puncture, Aspiration, Injection, Re-aspiration) technique

2.surgery

3.anti-infective drug treatment

4.‘watch and wait’

Cysts in the

human body.

Cystic Echinococcosis

By

Bryce Cormier

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