Author affiliations: Oregon Health & Science University–Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland, Oregon, USA (S.E. O'Neal, I.W. Pray) ; Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (S.E. O'Neal, P. Vilchez, R. Gamboa, C. Muro, L.M. Moyano, H.H. Garcia) ; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (V. Ayvar, C.M. Gavidia, A.E. Gonzalez) ; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (R.H. Gilman) Figure 1 Figure 1. Lifecycle of the Taenia solium tapeworm in humans and pigs. Taenia solium is a zoonotic cestode that infects both humans and pigs (Figure 1). Human brain infection, neurocysticercosis, is a major cause of preventable epilepsy across much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America ( 1 ); ≈1.35 million persons in Latin America and ≈3 million persons in Africa have epilepsy thought to be secondary to neurocysticercosis ( 2 , 3 ). Porcine cysticercosis is a food safety hazard and source of e...