Prevalence and Public Health importance of Bovine Cysticercosis in Haramaya Municipal Abattoir, East Hararghe Zone of Oromia Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia.
In all parts of the world, animal illnesses are one of the most significant limitations of increasing the productivity of food animals. Among the various parasitic diseases that impair cattle output around the world, parasitism is one of the most serious. Tapeworms are commercially important intestinal parasites that have infected humans for thousands of years all throughout the world.1
Besides Taenia saginata causes one type of taeniasis, while Taenia solium causes the other. Both infections are acquired indirectly, with humans swallowing parasite-infected beef or pork. Humans are the definitive hosts, while cows and pigs serve as intermediate hosts. Transmission to animals occurs by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of infected humans. Bovine cysticercosis is asymptomatic after development in infected animals.
Humans become infected by eating raw or undercooked meat containing the viable cysticerci. The tapeworm develops within the small intestine and becomes sexually mature in about three months, producing gravid proglottids, which are mobile and either migrate from the anus of the infected host spontaneously or shed in feces.
Haramaya district had, large head of cattle but production is low which may be due to parasitic diseases; among which bovine cysticecosis is the most important disease, causing direct and indirect economic loss on livestock production, particularly of cattle and the parasite has public health importance.
Vet Med Open J. 2022; 7(1): 5-11. doi: 10.17140/VMOJ-7-161
