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Cysticercosis risk factors

Statistically proven risk factors were:(12)

1. Poor defaecating habits
2. Inability to identify pork infected with cysticercosis
3. History of passing Taenia proglottides
4. History of raising pigs
5. Feeding human faeces to pigs
6. Using pigs barn as a toilet
7. Using dipping method for washing hands (13)

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