Children are most commonly affected and it’s a global health burden. Contamination of food with eggs of worm is the main mode of transmission. Three important species that infect humans are the roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), the whipworm (Trichuris trichura) and the hookworms (Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale).
Symptoms vary from diarrhea, pain abdomen to malaise and easy fatiguability which in turn due to chronic intestinal blood loss.
Worm infections are easily treatable with medicines (antihelminthics). Hygienic eating habits and improving sanitation helps in preventing them.
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