-Caveat Lector- From........ THE ALAMANCE INDEPENDENT Burlington, North Carolina Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor http://www.alamanceind.com/immig/immig_1.html Illegal aliens bringing epidemic of epilepsy "Neurocysticercosis" (1)is the term for infection of the nervous system - usually the brain - with the pork tapeworm; in the U.S., it is acquired by eating tapeworm eggs shed in human waste - not by eating pork from an infected pig. It is endemic in Latin America, Africa, and Asia - but had been extremely uncommon in this country until recently; in the U.S., the main way it is transmitted is by aliens from areas where it endemic working as foodhandlers and not washing their hands when they use the restroom while at work. In non-Moslem countries in the Third World - where pork is a common food, meaning pigs commonly get infected from human waste, cysticercosis is responsible for one-third of epilepsy cases. Most U.S. cases are in the Southwest and are among immigrants from Third World areas where the disease is endemic. However, a 1992 Centers for Disease Control report noted that 7.3% of cases in Los Angeles County were locally-transmitted; these patients were native-born Americans who had never traveled to countries where the disease is common. Another CDC report, this one in July-September 1997, noted that the disease is increasingly common among Americans who have never left the U.S. The CDC notes that it is responsible for 2% of neurologic hospital admissions in Southern California., producing more than 1,000 cases yearly nationwide. The CDC noted that 3% of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina who were from Central America were in the infectious stage of the disease; that CDC report expressed particular concern about such people working as food handlers or housekeepers - and suggested that those in these occupations be tested for whether they were infectious. Showing both the typical transmission route in the U.S. - and the risk cysticercosis poses to the general American public - the CDC noted that food contaminated by immigrant cooks caused an outbreak of the disease among Orthodox Jews in New York City. The fact that Orthodox Jews don't eat pork didn't prevent them from getting the disease - nor did their distance from the Mexico border. A Texas Dept. of Health report in Aug. 1998 noted among risk factors "employing a domestic worker from an endemic area" and eating food prepared by a "foodhandler with a tapeworm"; the report elsewhere explicitly blamed the increase in the disease inside the U.S. on immigration. That Texas Dept. of Health report noted that this disease is becoming endemic "in parts of the United States having a large Hispanic population" and that "neurocysticercosis is a major health problem along the United States-Mexico border." Still want to eat in that restaurant with so many Mexican kitchen and buffet-line workers? http://www.americanpatrol.com/HEALTH/brainwormsmaggio991031.html (1)Footnote: http://www.americanpatrol.com/HEALTH/brainparasitemexican991026.html Brain-burrowing tapeworm a problem in S. Texas Some doctors see increase in parasite that is rare in U.S. but common elsewhere October 25, 1999 McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Doctors in South Texas say they're seeing more cases of a parasite that burrows into the human brain, sometimes resulting in seizures or death. Health officials say the increase is probably due to failure of food handlers to wash their hands after going to the bathroom. They think increasing immigration from Central and South America, where the tapeworm is more common, may also be a factor. A condition known as neurocysticercosis occurs when immature larvae of the pork tapeworm travel in the bloodstream and lodge in the brain or central nervous system, sometimes causing seizures and headaches. The disease kills up to 50,000 people worldwide each year, according to a Cambridge University research group, but is uncommon in most of the United States. "Neurocysticercosis is a major health problem along the United States-Mexico border," according to a 1998 report by the Texas Department of Health, which said the increase corresponds to increased immigration from areas where the disease is more common. It also said doctors are better able to diagnose the disease, using CT scans. "People who are migrating here, some of them end up in food-service positions," Dr. Judy Teale, a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center, told The Monitor newspaper in McAllen. "It's a tremendous problem in Third World countries, and it's becoming an increasing problem in the U.S. It definitely has to do with immigration." Ms. Teale is studying the effects of treatment for the disease and the brain's immune response to anti-parasite drugs. But some doctors say the incidence of the disease doesn't seem to be increasing. "It's mainly sporadic around the country," said Dr. Michael Jelinek, an infectious-disease specialist in McAllen. "It remains a fairly rare illness in this country. It's really not among the top 100 things I treat." Dr. Jelinek said he treats four or five cases a year. He said that a Mexican-born patient he treated last month had more than 30 lesions on his brain and responded well to a drug that killed the worms. The disease is usually transmitted when a person who has eaten pork infected with a tapeworm called Taenia solium does not wash his or her hands thoroughly after using the restroom and then prepares food. 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