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Chebo Chebunyo fetching water while dogs quench their thirst at Lokiwach water pan in Silale ward in Baringo county on January 30, 2019. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Dogs are said to be man’s best friend, but this friendship exposes people to diseases like rabies. Besides rabies, there is also coenurosis, another dog disease that closely resembles rabies. The Maasai people even have a name for it: ‘Ormilo’.
Coenurosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the larval stages of Taenia species of tapeworms such as T multiceps and T serialis. It is very rare in humans. The world over, there have been about 30 confirmed cases of human central nervous system (CNS) coenurosis with the cases reported in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.
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