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Fecal-Oral Transmission

Fecal-oral transmission is a primary route for many intestinal parasites, where eggs or cysts in human or animal feces contaminate water, produce, soil, or surfaces and are swallowed, causing infection.

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How common are parasitic infections that involve the pancreas and can they cause diabetes in individual patients?

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