Public Health Significance of Foodborne Helminthiasis

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Journal of Experimental Food Chemistry has been recently launched an article related to the Foodborne Helminthiasis. It is the most cited article published in the Volume 4 in 2018. Mahendra Pal from Narayan Consultancy on Veterinary Public Health from India has submitted the article to our journal who is the editor of the prestigious journal.

Foodborne diseases, caused by biological as well as chemical agents, have an impact in both developing and developed nations. The foodborne diseases of microbial origin are acute where as those caused by chemical toxicants are resulted due to chronic exposure. Amongst various microbial agents of foodborne diseases, parasitic infections have been recently identified as an important public health problems having considerable economic impact in terms of morbidity, loss of productivity, and health care costs. The risk factors for acquiring foodborne helminthic infections are overcrowding, unhygienic living conditions, scarcity of water, contaminated food and water, under nutrition and other poverty-related factors.

 Several foodborne and waterborne helminthic diseases such as echinococcosis, fascioliasis, taeniasis, cysticercosis, diphyllobothriosis, capillariasis, and ascariasis have shown increased trend in the last decades. Majority of the mentioned parasites have no successful detection and controlling mechanisms. Immunization of food animals against foodborne parasites in certain conditions is very limited because there is generally a lack of vaccines for foodborne parasites.

Conclusion:

Foodborne illnesses comprise a variety of infectious and non-infectious diseases, which are responsible for significant proportion of morbidity and mortality as well as economic losses. Many parasitic infections are associated with overcrowding, poor sanitation, contaminated food and water, under nutrition, and other poverty-related factors. Therefore, hygienic handling of food and water, proper sanitation of equipments and avoidance of surface contamination as well as taking actions for interrupting survival of the harmful stages of parasites that is pathogenic to man is mandatory. Countries should keep pace with population growth; minimize migration from rural to urban areas and the demand for clean, safe drinking water and proper sanitation should be well implemented.

For more information regarding the article please go through the below link: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/public-health-significance-of-foodborne-helminthiasis-a-systematic-review-2472-0542-1000135-99193.html

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