NewsDesk @bactiman63 For the first five months of 2022, Kazakhstan officials have reported 350 cases of the parasitic tapeworm disease, echinococcosis. Seventy-one cases were reported in children under...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the Volgograd region, the Mantoux test helped identify a rare disease in a 13-year-old adolescent. At school, a Volgograd student underwent a tuberculin test,...

What is Echinococcus? Echinococcus granulosus is a relatively small tapeworm (3-6 mm in length) that is found in dogs and other canids, wolves for example. Humans are accidentally infected through association...