**1. Introduction**

Parasitic zoonoses are becoming increasingly important in the spectrum of emerging and re-emergent diseases for both developed and developing countries, and are typically associated with poor marginalized countries in low-income countries. They are regarded as disease of the poorest among the poor [1–3]. *Taenia solium* is found in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and Latin America where domestic pig husbandry is practiced, poverty, illiteracy and deficient sanitary infrastructures are common [1, 4, 5]. Similarly, the disease has been reported in urban areas where most of the infected pigs are transported and consumed. The incidence of the disease in humans is increasing and now is a re-emerging disease in some developed countries and in areas of non-endemicity, due to international

travel and immigration [6, 7]. Hence cysticercosis/neurocysticercosis/teaniosis complex caused by the larval stage of *T. solium* in both pigs and humans remains a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world. It is seriously affecting pig production and also considered as a public health and economic problem in many developing countries affecting food security and negatively impacts the nutritional and economic well-being of the small holder farming community [8, 9].
