Tapeworm and epilepsy

摘要

ACCORDING to the World Health Organization, about two million people worldwide suffer with epilepsy because of neurocysticercosis, an infection of the brain or spinal cord caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. The infection, the most common preventable epilepsy in the developing world, is usually found in poor rural communities around the world. But cases are on the rise in developed countries such as in the southwestern states of the US bordering Mexico.