Descriptive epidemiology provides the What, Who, When and Where of health-related events. Determinants-Epidemiology is often used to search for causes and other factors that influence the occurrence of health-related events such as diseases, syndromes, and injuries.attern refers to the occurrence of health-related events by time, place, and personal characteristics. Determinants-Epidemiology is often used to search for causes and other factors that influence the occurrence of health-related events such as diseases, syndromes, and injuries.
Tapeworms can also cause abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea. Tapeworms can be spread in all areas of the human body. How tapeworms affect the body actually depends on how infested the body is with tapeworms. Cysticercosis is a sickness caused by ingesting the tapeworms found in pork. When tapeworm larvae spreads to the human brain, it is a very serious problem resulting in a condition referred to as neurocysticercosis. If a tapeworm infestation problem exists, there are medications sold over-the-counter for this problem.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative. Taenia solium is one of the most dangerous tapeworms to humans, because humans can act as a definitive and intermediate host. The condition where a human is used as a definitive host for an adult tape worm is called taeniasis.This condition is usually asymptomatic in humans and nonfatal.aenia solium is different than other species in the genus Taenia in that it can use its definitive host (human) as an intermediate. The oncosphere larva can infect a human host through external autoinfection, where eggs expelled through fecal matter are ingested orally.