History Of Hydatid Disease

Hydatid disease is one of the oldest diseases known to man. It was first described in the Talmud as a "Bladder full of water" [1-2]. Hippocrates described the human Echinococcus disease more than two thousand year ago with a very interesting expression (liver filled with water) [3]. Al-Rahzes, subsequently wrote detailed script on hydatid cyst of the liver about one thousand years ago [4]. However, the exact life cycle of the parasite was only recognized in 1928 by Dew et al. [1-2].