Abstract
Around 25% of the global population suffer from one or more parasitic
infections, of which food and vector-borne parasitic zoonotic diseases
are the major concern. Additionally, in recent years, zoonoses and
communicable diseases common to man and animals have gained increasing
attention worldwide. Great changes in the climatic conditions, cropping
pattern, demography and food habits, increasing international travels,
marketing and trades, deforestation and urbanization play vital roles in
the emergence and re-emergence of parasitic zoonoses. Although,
underestimated, however, collected burden of food and vector-borne
parasitic diseases is attributed to ~60 million
Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Of the 20 Neglected Tropical
Diseases (NTDs) listed by World Health Organization (WHO) and Centres
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 13 diseases are of parasitic
origin. Besides, there are about 200 zoonotic diseases where WHO
enlisted eight diseases as Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) in the
year 2013, of them four diseases namely cysticercosis, hydatidosis,
leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis are caused by the parasite. In this
review, we discussed global burden and impacts of food and vector-borne
zoonotic parasitic diseases.