Abstract

Humans suffer from a number of parasitic plant-, meat-, and fishborne zoonotic diseases; some are deadly and others cause chronic ill health. A zoonosis is a disease caused by a pathogen that becomes established in a human host when human activities encroach into the pathogen’s natural life cycle. The route of helminth infection invariably involves one of the pathogen’s natural hosts (called an intermediate host) having become a human food item. This chapter is concerned with a selection of foodborne species of trematode, cestode, and nematode parasites and discusses the major points of their biology, distribution, and food risk factors, as well as their public health and economic importance. Approaches to the prevention and control of these foodborne helminth infections are described.

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