“…In 1973, Tumada and Margono identified almost 10% of people living in the Paniai highlands as having taeniasis Margono, 1973a, 1973b), shortly after which Tumada, Subianto and their colleagues (Gajdusek, 1978;Subianto et al, 1978;Tumada and Subianto, 1974) described severe burns in neurocysticercosis patients from West Papua. More recent epidemiological studies have delineated the extent of T. solium transmission in West Papua (Ito et al, 2002(Ito et al, , 2003(Ito et al, , 2004(Ito et al, , 2005a(Ito et al, , 2005bMargono et al, 2001aMargono et al, , 2001bMargono et al, , 2003Margono et al, , 2005Margono et al, , 2006Salim et al, 2009;Subahar et al, 2001;Swastika et al, unpublished;Wandra et al, 2000Widarso et al, 1999Widarso et al, , 2001, in Papua New Guinea (Fritzsche et al, 1990;Ito et al, 2004;McManus, 1995;Owen, 2006), and on the island, Bali (see below), and are also beginning to unravel the epidemiology of T. SAGINATA and T. ASIATICA in Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia.…”