Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus, the herbivores represent the intermediate host for this parasite such as sheep, cows, buffaloes, camels, horses, and other animals) in addition humans act as accidental intermediate hosts, while the carnivores of the canidae family are definitive hosts, humans become infected by eating parasite eggs in contaminated food, water, or soil, or after direct contact with infected hosts.