Educating the public about the dangers of contact with raccoons or their feces is the most important preventive step. Parents should encourage their children to practice good hygiene; Hand-washing after outdoor play or contact with animals is very important. Fences can be used to prevent raccoons from visiting homes, garbage, or yards for food. Keeping raccoons as pets is strongly discouraged. Raccoon latrines in and around homes should be checked for and cleaned as soon as possible. Boiling water, steam-cleaning, flaming, or fire are highly effective and are easily accessible means to decontaminate household things or areas. Materials contaminated by<unk>  should be incinerated. Contaminated areas can be cleaned with a xylene-ethanol mixture. Common chemical disinfectants are not effective against<unk>  eggs. Disinfectants like 20% bleach (1% sodium hypochlorite) wash away the eggs but do not kill them. Since treatment is not very effective, the best way to escape this parasite is to practice the prevention methods.
Baylisascaris procyonis
Gongylonema pulchrum
Toxocara cati
Dipylidium caninum
Echinostoma revolutum
Myriodontium keratinophilum
Trichobacteriosis axillaris
Basidiobolus ranarum