Taeniasis

Taeniasis
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	B68
ICD-9	123.3
DiseasesDB	12875
MedlinePlus	001391
eMedicine	ped/2201
MeSH	D013622

Taeniasis is a form of tapeworm infection which is caused by tapeworms of the genius Taenia.

The two most important human pathogens in the genus are Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm) and Taenia saginata (the beef tapeworm). Infection is acquired by eating undercooked contaminated meat. The adult worms live in the lumen of the intestine where it causes very few symptoms. Taeniasis is generally asymptomatic and is diagnosed when a portion of the worm is passed in the stool. Oral antiparasitic drugs are the treatment of choice.

This is a disease that is caused by tanea worm , and the vector is pork. It get into human when a man eats an infected meat.This could be prevented by a human to boil the meat for as long as all the bladder worm that are in the infested meat die, it can also be prevented by sanitation , and keepping pork inside ,vaccination can also help in treating the animals before they get infected with witn worms.A pork can get the worms by digesting feaces from the veld and it passes it to human