Tapeworms of the Taenia and Echinococcus species can also be contracted by humans via accidental ingestion of cat feces containing infectious tapeworm eggs. The only form of Echinococcus transmissable by cats is that causing alveolar echinococcus.
Anyone can contract HIV, and while IDUs are at great risk because of practices related to their drug use, anyone who engages in unsafe sex (e.g., unprotected sex with an infected partner) could be exposed to HIV infection.frican-Americans account for a higher proportion of HIV infections than any other population at all stages of the disease from initial infection to death (see text box). Moreover, specific minority subgroups are at particular risk.
âSo it encourage us, it gives us strength to live with HIV and they give us love that we donât get from home from our parents, from our relatives. Swaziland has the worldâs highest incidence of HIV, affecting around 26 percent of the countyâs 1.25 million people. Young women aged 24 and under are at least three times more likely to contract the disease than their male counterparts.