Hazards oftransborder transmission oftrichinellosis and echinococcosis

Introduction At present the occurrence of zoonoses has serious impact on the agriculture and economy of European countries. On, using the example of two zoonoses, trichinellosis and alveolar echinococcosis, we want to show different causes and various means of their spreading and resulting hazard on humans. These helminthozoonoses have been chosen for increasing occurrence of their agents in domestic or wildlife animals in Europe. Humans get infected with trichinellosis quite frequently, taking into account that meat of domestic or wildlife animals is the source of infection. Despite the large spread of Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes in many countries of Central Europe, the occurrence of alveolar echinococcosis in humans is rare.