This disease is literally an everyday finding in any American city that has South of the Border immigrants. It is the most common cause of seizures SOTB.
Humans get the worms by eating bad pork. They get the brain findings by drinking water contaminated by human waste.
Joe needs to send a few more illegals to Boston, and the NEJM won’t be so jazzed about all this.
I came across that medical term years ago when I was a medical transcriptionist. I thought the doctor was stuttering at first and then spent 20 minutes researching what I was hearing. I rarely heard the term again, which is surprising since I live in the Phoenix area and we have tons of Hispanics. TB, on the other hand, was an ongoing patient issue at the last hospital I worked at.