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It may come as a surprise that a lowly tapeworm is responsible for as many as 10 percent of cases in which a patient presents with seizures to an emergency room in a large urban hospital in New Mexico or California. In fact, cysticercosis, infection with the larval stage of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system worldwide, and it is the leading cause of late-onset epilepsy in many developing countries. Most of the estimated 50 million cases of cysticercosis originate in poor communities of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Parasitic Disease Epidemiology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.

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