Human sparganosis is a rare but important food borne zoonosis and could be attributed to
increased consumption of raw meat of fish, frogs, snakes etc. Sparganosis may involve
varied organ systems but subcutaneous sparganosis remains the one of the commonly
reported clinical condition. Rarity of this problem reinforces the necessity of sensitising the
treating physicians of the differential possibility of this infection in patients with history of
practice of consuming raw meat. Expansion of health communication and provision of safe …