Dracunculiasis
... remains endemic in just four countries: Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan. Dracunculiasis is a disease of ... Around 1% of dracunculiasis cases result in death from secondary infections of the wound. When dracunculiasis was widespread, ... Humans have had dracunculiasis since at least 1,000 BCE, and accounts consistent with dracunculiasis appear in surviving ... A record low 13 cases of dracunculiasis were reported worldwide in 2022. If the eradication program succeeds, dracunculiasis ...
Eradication of dracunculiasis
Dracunculiasis)" World Health Organization on Dracunculiasis Portal: Medicine (CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list, ... Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, is an infection by the Guinea worm. In 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases ... Burkina Faso and Togo were both certified free of dracunculiasis in 2011, as the last endemic cases were in November 2006 and ... "Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) Fact sheet N°359 (Revised)". World Health Organization. March 2014. Archived from the ...
Ingestion
"Dracunculiasis". Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-17 ...
Barkeol
"Dracunculiasis." Dracunculiasis: Global Status. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 29. Gideon. GIDEON Informatics, Inc., 3 Apr. 2014. Web. 1 Jan ... In 1999, 50% of Dracunculiasis cases in Mauritania were reported from Barkeol. 16°38′N 12°30′W / 16.633°N 12.500°W / 16.633 ...
Neglected tropical diseases
Dracunculiasis is also known as Guinea-worm disease. In 2019, 53 cases were reported across four countries, a substantial ... Dracunculiasis is preventable by water filtration, immediate case identification to prevent spread, health education, and ... "Dracunculiasis". Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014. "Echinococcosis". Archived from the ... For example: NTDs planned to be eradicated: dracunculiasis by the year 2015, endemic treponematoses (yaws) by 2020 NTDs planned ...
Dracunculus medinensis
D. medinensis causes dracunculiasis as a result of the emergence of the female worm, nonemergence of adult worms (usually the ... "Dracunculiasis: About Guinea-Worm Disease". who.int. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 1 November 2006. ... "Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January-December 2010" (PDF). Weekly Epidemiological Record. WHO. 86 (10): 92. 4 March ... Chaudhury, Abhijit (2022). "Dracunculiasis". Textbook of Parasitic Zoonoses. Microbial Zoonoses. pp. 427-436. doi:10.1007/978- ...
Kapoeta East County
"Dracunculiasis = Sudan". WHO. 27 May 2011. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-27. "Humanitarian ... In the first quarter of 2011, 136 cases of Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) were reported from Kapoeta East out of 194 ...
Human parasite
Greenaway, C. "Dracunculiasis". Canadian Medical Association Journal (Feb 2004) (Use dmy dates from December 2022, All articles ... However, several diseases such as Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), Hookworm, Elephantiasis, Schistosomiasis, Malaria, and ... 173-174 The major parasitic disease that has been documented in early records is dracunculiasis. This disease is caused by the ... causes dracunculiasis.: 495 Hookworm: causes helminthiasis Tapeworm (Eucestoda): causes cysticercosis, echinococcosis, ...
Timeline of deworming
"Dracunculiasis: Historical background". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved ...
Eradication of infectious diseases
Dracunculiasis, also called Guinea worm disease, is a painful and disabling parasitic disease caused by the nematode ... "Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January-December 2010". WHO Weekly Epidemiology Record. 86 (10): 81-92. March 2011. WHO ... "Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)". World Health Organization. Retrieved 2 October 2016. "Guinea Worm Cases Fell 50% in 2020 ... There are four ongoing programs, targeting the human diseases poliomyelitis (polio), yaws, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm), and ...
Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases
One of the biggest successes was the control of Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis). The disease was eliminated in 19 of 21 ... eradicate dracunculiasis and yaws; reduce the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) related to NTD by 75%. As the new road map ... "Dracunculiasis Eradication: Are We There Yet?". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99 (2): 388-395. doi: ...
Dracunculus (nematode)
"Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)". World Health Organization. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022. Despommier DD, ... Dracunculiasis Eradication: Global Surveillance Summary, 2021 (Report). World Health Organization. 27 May 2022. Retrieved 11 ...
South Sudan
"WHO - Dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease)". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved ... Hopkins, DR; Ruiz-Tiben, E; Weiss, A; Withers, PC; Eberhard, ML; Roy, SL (July 2013). "Dracunculiasis eradication: and now, ... Visser, BJ (July 2012). "Dracunculiasis eradication-finishing the job before surprises arise". Asian Pac J Trop Med. 5 (7): 505 ... South Sudan is one of the few countries where dracunculiasis still occurs. At the time of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of ...
Cloth filter
In sub-Saharan Africa where guinea worm infections (dracunculiasis) are endemic, infection is prevented by use of a nylon mesh ... Hopkins DR, Ruiz-Tiben E, Diallo N, Withers PC, Maguire JH (October 2002). "Dracunculiasis eradication: and now, Sudan". Am. J ...
Kapoeta North County
"Dracunculiasis Sudan Status: January - March 2011". WHO. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28. ... By 2009 there were less than 5,000 cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in the world, most in Eastern Equatoria state ... Between January and March 2011 194 cases of dracunculiasis were reported from 93 villages and six counties in South Sudan. Of ...
London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases
"Dracunculiasis Eradication: Are We There Yet?". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99 (2): 388-395. doi: ...
List of Egyptian inventions and discoveries
Dracunculiasis or Guinea-worm disease and its treatment - The Ebers Papyrus says that the cure to the Guinea-Worm disease is to ... Palmer, Philip E.S.; Reeder, Maurice M. (2008) [First published 1981]. "Chapter 27: Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)". ...
The Final Inch
2005). "Dracunculiasis eradication: the final inch". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The American ... "Dracunculiasis eradication: the final inch" Global Polio Eradication Initiative, "The disease and the virus" Yates, Kara ( ...
Ebers Papyrus
Palmer, Philip E.S.; Reeder, Maurice M. (2008) [First published 1981]. "Chapter 27: Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)". ...
Heisuke Abe
He died of illness, presumed[according to whom?] to be Dracunculiasis at Wewak in September 1943. "Biography of Lieutenant- ...
Helminthiasis
"Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) Fact sheet N°359 (Revised)". World Health Organization. February 2016. Archived from the ... infection) Dracunculiasis (guinea worm infection) Baylisascaris (raccoon roundworm, may be transmitted to pets, livestock, and ... In 2014, only 148 people were reported to have dracunculiasis because of a successful eradication campaign for that particular ... WaterAid and Share, UK "Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)". Fact sheet N°359 (Revised). WHO Media Centre. March 2014. ...
Jimmy Carter
"Dracunculiasis eradication: "on the threshold of a historic achievement"". World Health Organization. Archived from the ... the contribution of the Carter Center working alongside the World Health Organization to the near-eradication of dracunculiasis ...
Metronidazole
It is effective for dracunculiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and amebiasis. It is an option for a first episode of mild-to- ...
Abscess
Specific parasites known to do this include dracunculiasis and myiasis. Surgery of the anal fistula to drain an abscess treats ...
Cyclops (copepod)
Dracunculiasis will rarely cause death but is a weakening disease. Cyclops can be controlled using physical, chemical, ... This type of predation was used in the South Indian state of Karnataka to eradicate dracunculiasis. Additionally, cyclops are ... Cyclops is intermediate host of dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) and fish tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum) infection. This ... USA National Research Council; World Health Organization (1985). Workshop on opportunities for control of dracunculiasis, 16-19 ...
Timeline of global health
also available at http://edepot.wur.nl/252885 "Dracunculiasis: Certification". World Health Organization. Archived from the ...
Post-presidency of Jimmy Carter
Retrieved January 14, 2012.[permanent dead link] "Carter Center Guinea Worm Eradication Program - Dracunculiasis". The Carter ...
Theophilus Ochang
"GUINEA WORM WRAP-UP #158" (PDF). WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training and Eradication of Dracunculiasis. December 1 ... "GUINEA WORM WRAP-UP #168" (PDF). WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training and Eradication of Dracunculiasis. December 15 ...
World Health Organization
Division of Control of Tropical Disease (1996). Criteria for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (PDF) (Revised ed ... The WHO established an independent International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (Guinea worm ...
Carter Center
The group has reviewed more than 100 infectious diseases and identified six as potentially eradicable - dracunculiasis, ... Biswas, Gautam; Sankara, Dieudonne P.; Agua-Agum, Junerlyn; Maïga, Alhousseini (August 5, 2013). "Dracunculiasis (guinea worm ...