Editing Cysticercosis (section)

=== Infection estimates ===
In Latin America, an estimated 75 million persons live in endemic areas and 400,000 people have symptomatic disease.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bern C, Garcia HH, Evans C, et al. |title=Magnitude of the disease burden from neurocysticercosis in a developing country |journal=Clin. Infect. Dis. |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=1203–9 |date=November 1999 |pmid=10524964 |pmc=2913118 |doi=10.1086/313470 }}</ref> Some studies suggest that the prevalence of cysticercosis in Mexico is between 3.1 and 3.9 percent. Other studies have found the [[seroprevalence]] in areas of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru as high as 20 percent in humans, and 37 percent in pigs.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Yeh J, Sheffield JS |title=Cysticercosis: A Zebra in the Neighborhood |journal=Virtual Mentor |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=220–3 |date=April 2008 |url=http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/04/cprl1-0804.html |doi=10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.4.cprl1-0804 |pmid=23206912 |access-date=2009-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219234814/http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/04/cprl1-0804.html |archive-date=2009-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo around 10% of the population is infected, in Madagascar 16%. The distribution of cysticercosis coincides with the distribution of ''T. solium''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Taeniasis/Cysticercosis |work=Zoonoses |publisher=World Health Organization |url=https://www.who.int/zoonoses/diseases/taeniasis/en/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009155516/http://www.who.int/zoonoses/diseases/taeniasis/en/index.html |archive-date=2008-10-09 }}</ref> Cysticercosis is the most common cause of symptomatic [[epilepsy]] worldwide.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Relationship between epilepsy and tropical diseases. Commission on Tropical Diseases of the International League Against Epilepsy |journal=Epilepsia |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=89–93 |year=1994 |pmid=8112262 |doi=10.1111/j.1528-1157.1994.tb02916.x|s2cid=221733822 }}</ref>

Prevalence rates in the United States have shown immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia account for most of the domestic cases of cysticercosis.<ref>{{cite journal|author= Flisser A.|date=May 1988|title= Neurocysticercosis in Mexico|journal =Parasitology Today|volume=4|issue=5|pages= 131–137|pmid=15463066|doi=10.1016/0169-4758(88)90187-1}}</ref>

In 1990 and 1991, four unrelated members of an [[Orthodox Jewish]] community in [[New York City]] developed recurrent seizures and brain lesions, which were found to have been caused by ''T. solium''.  Their poor hygiene was the cause of infection .  <ref>{{Cite web|title=Taeniasis/Cysticercosis|url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/taeniasis-cysticercosis|access-date=2021-03-17|website=www.who.int|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cm5pTOiYEmsC&q=pork+tapeworm+orthodox+jews&pg=PA192 | title=Outbreak Investigations Around the World: Case Studies in Infectious Disease | author=Dworkin, Mark S. | pages=192–196 | year=2010 | publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers | access-date=August 9, 2011 | isbn=978-0-7637-5143-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | journal=[[New England Journal of Medicine]] | title=Neurocysticercosis in an Orthodox Jewish Community in New York City | last1=Schantz |first1=Peter M. | date=September 3, 1992 | volume=327 | issue=10 | pages=692–695 | doi=10.1056/NEJM199209033271004 | pmid=1495521 | last2=Moore | first2=Anne C. | last3=Muñoz | first3=José L. | last4=Hartman | first4=Barry J. | last5=Schaefer | first5=John A. | last6=Aron | first6=Alan M. | last7=Persaud | first7=Deborah | last8=Sarti | first8=Elsa | last9=Wilson | first9=Marianna |display-authors = 2}}</ref>