On the night of the 8th " Phagan " (19th February 1907), when there was snow in the fields, some wild pigs came down from a forest in Mouza Tongasi and dug up a field of wheat after removing the snow from the ground. On the following morning some people of the upper part of this village went in search of them with a gun ; eventually three boars were tracked down. Two small ones and one a very f...

Intensive epidemiological and seroepidemiological studies of Trichinella spiralis infection in swine have been carried out in the borough of Kladovo, one of the four regions in Yugoslavia where trichinellosis is endemic. A high prevalence (4.7%) of trichinellosis was discovered in three neighboring parishes adjoining the bank of the river Danube. Both geographically and epidemiologically these ...

Advice is given on how to set up a veterinary public health programme, drawing on recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Trichinellosis control is used as an example of planning procedures.

lowed by the reintroduction in Perak of the original strain from bats and its subsequent southward movement in infected pigs, would explain observed strain differences. Models suggest that evolution of the virus within pig populations would result in lower death rates but prolonged illness. Although the pig-adapted virus strain may have circulated on both northern and southern farms, sampling b...

S u m m a r y : The Ministries of Health and Agrarian Concerns created in 1994 the "Zoonosis Commission", a working group of professionals of both institutions, for improving the epidemiological surveillance and control of trichinellosis in Buenos Aires Province. The main purpose was the early detection and control of swine trichinellosis, for reducing human outbreaks, the strategy of action wa...

Trichinellosis is an endemic disease in Argentina. During the last decade (1990 to 1999) 5,217 human cases were notified to the National System of Epidemiological Surveillance from 18 provinces of 23 that integrate the country. However 91% of the cases notified were registered in only three provinces (Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Santa Fe) with a population of more than 50% of the inhabitants of A...

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 do...