NewsDesk @bactiman63 According to a news release from Mattilsynet (Norwegian Food Safety Authority) computer translated: The parasite Echinococcus (Echinococcus canadensis G10) has been detected on a...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Last month, New Hampshire health officials released a health alert after identifying two locally acquired Echinococcus granulosus cases, the first such cases of the parasitic infection...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported in a health alert last week that there have been two human cases of Echinococcus (tapeworm) infection acquired...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Doctors in Khimki saved a young woman from the larvae of a dangerous tapeworm, on September 3, the press service of the Department of Health of the Moscow Region reports. In a hospital...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A 19-year-old pregnant woman from Shymkent, Kazakhstan was diagnosed with echinococcus, an extremely dangerous parasitic disease, according to a Otyrar report (computer...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A rare parasitic infection imported from Europe continues to take root in Alberta, Canada. The province is now the North American hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis...

Officials in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan report an unusual case of echinococcosis, a parasitic infection. The patient, a man in his 50s, presented at the emergency department complaining of urinary...

In this video, I give a review of the common cestodes, or tapeworms that infect people. Hymenolepsis nana, Hymenolepsis diminuta, Taenia solium and saginata, Echinococcus and Diphyllobothrium latum are...

On this weekends Outbreak News This Week Radio show, I spend the first half talking to World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson for polio eradication, Oliver Rosenbauer. During the interview, Mr Rosenbauer...

The Public Health Agency of Sweden, or Folkhälsomyndigheten have reviewed some recent human Echinococcus multilocularis infection and conclude that some recent infections cannot be ruled out that they...