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Do you need to deworm? These are the signs to look out for

A pupil takes an anti-helminthics tablet at Ayucha primary school in Awasi, Kisumu county, on February 28, 2017. [Denish Ochieng/ Standard]

In April 2020, researchers from Kenyatta University published a study in the African Journal of Rural Development, done from May 2016 to June 2017 with the purpose to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with taeniosis and porcine cysticercosis in Thika Sub County. The two are medical lingo for what is known as tapeworms in laymen’s terms.

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