Prevalence Of Gastro-intestinal Heminthiasis Among Primary School Children (case Study Of Ihengwu Village, Oko, Orumba North L.g.a.)

ABSTRACTGastro Intestinal Helminthiasis was investigated among primary school children in Ihengwu village, Oko between February and March 2015. Sixty samples of freshly collected faeces from sixty randomly selected primary school children between the age of four and ten years from two selected primary schools; Gaius Benton and Pope John primary schools, Oko were analyzed. A small quantity of each faecal sample was collected from the specimen bottle and emulsified on a clean microscopic slide and then examined microscopically of the 60 samples examined, 52(86.7%) harbored helminthes ova, Ascari…