{"id":79066,"date":"2025-12-22T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=79066"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:02:43","slug":"raccoon-roundworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/raccoon-roundworm\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon Roundworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Raccoon Roundworm Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Europe is on alert after a new study revealed the raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, has firmly taken hold in wild raccoons across nine countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Raccoon Roundworm<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) is the common large roundworm or ascarid found in <\/span><b>the small intestinal tract of raccoons.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It infects <\/span><b>raccoons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in parts of <\/span><b>North America, Europe and Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and less commonly in South America.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parasite is <\/span><b>indigenous to North America<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and emerging in Europe and Asia after the introduction of North American raccoons for the commercial fur trade in the early 20th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">century.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can cause severe <\/span><b>disease in humans and other animals.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Primary Hosts of Raccoon Roundworm: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Racoons (\u200bProcyon lotor\u200b), Wild and domestic canids<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Transmission &amp; Life Cycle of Raccoon Roundworm<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infection occurs through ingestion of <\/span><b>infective eggs or infected paratenic hosts.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eggs <\/span><b>passed in racoon faeces<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are shed in the environment and take 2-4weeks to embryonate\u00a0 and become infective.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Many mammals and birds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can become paratenic hosts after consuming the eggs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once infective eggs are ingested, the eggs hatch and larvae penetrate the intestinal wall where they can migrate to various tissues (liver, lungs, eyes, and brain), and infect the host.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Treatment and Control: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raccoons can be successfully treated with several <\/span><b>anthelmintics to kill the adult worms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/raccoon-roundworm-baylisascaris-procyonis-europe-spread-india-risk-parasite-infection-2839323-2025-12-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raccoon Roundworm is the common large roundworm or ascarid found in the small intestinal tract of raccoons. 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