ArticleMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report2021
Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2020-June 2021.
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- Evaluating wildlife community composition around villages with varying Guinea worm (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- Cases of Guinea Worm Disease Among Al Sabah Children Hospital Attendees from January to December 2022, South Sudan.The East African health research journal · 2024Article
- Dracunculiasis over the centuries: the history of a parasite unfamiliar to the West.Le infezioni in medicina · 2023Article
- Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis - Worldwide, January 2021-June 2022.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2022Article
- Guinea Worm Disease: A Neglected Diseases on the Verge of Eradication.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
- Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis, is traditionally acquired by drinking water containing copepods (water fleas) infected with D. medinensis larvae, but in recent years also appears increasingly to be transmitted by eating fish or other aquatic animals. The worm typically emerges through the skin on a lower limb of the host 1 year after infection, causing pain and disability (1). There is no vaccine or medicine to prevent or medicine to treat dracunculiasis; eradication relies on case containment* to prevent water contamination and other interventions to prevent infection: health education, water filtration, treatment of unsafe water with temephos (an organophosphate larvicide), and provision of safe drinking water (1,2). The eradication campaign began in 1980 at CDC (1). In 1986, with an estimated 3.5 million cases
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