Dogs at a sheep ranch lounge beside a vehicle in Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile. Canine echinococcosis, a parasitic disease, has increased in the province after a deworming program was canceled.

Echinococcosis is a serious zoonotic disease that people can get from inadvertently ingesting microscopic eggs that are shed in dogs infected with this specific species of tapeworm. The inconspicuous ...

As a zoonotic parasitic disease, echinococcosis is a severe global public health issue caused by the larvae of Echinococcus spp. Not only does echinococcosis threaten human health, but echinococcosis ...

A parasitic disease, canine echinococcosis, has increased in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego province after a governmental dog deworming program was cancelled in 2004, according to a study from the ...