Diseases affect the normal health conditions and cause reduction of growth, abnormal metabolic activates and even death. It also deteriorates the normal health condition of fish and cause fish mortality, thus results great economic loss. A majority of freshwater fishes carry heavy infection of parasites which cause deterioration in the food value of fish and may even result in their mortality. Besides these, there are a number of helminth parasites which are transmitted to human beings only through fish.

1. Parasitic Diseasesof Exotic Carp in Bangladesh
(Parasitesfound in exoticcarps inBangladesh are shown below:)
Camallanus sp (Nematode) Chilodonella sp (Protozoan) Dactylogyrussp
Gyrodactylussp Ichthyophthiriusmultifiliis l. indicus
Lytocestusbirmanicus Metadena sp Trichodina sp
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