Parasitic Diseases

Community Education Can Eliminate Tapeworm, Mexico Study Confirms

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 30th, 1995

Approximately 50 million persons worldwide are infected with Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) and Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), and some 50,000 die each year of the cysticercosis associated with the pork tapeworm, according to the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE).

CDC's Peter M. Schantz and colleagues in Mexico recently undertook a comprehensive field study in rural Mexico to measure the effectiveness of health education in the prevention of pork tapeworm, which is spread through pork and foods contaminated by the feces of tapeworm-infected humans.

In a rural community in the state of Morelos, Mexico, Schantz et...

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