Dracunculiasis may not be a killer disease, but it is painful and disabling. A study on school attendance in Nigeria showed that in 1995, ...

The oldest reference to what we now call dracunculiasis is a 1550 B.C.E Egyptian text, the Ebers text, which documents the disease and a form of treatment. The scary-as-hell “little dragons ...

Dracunculiasis met the scientific criteria for eradication (see Criteria for Assessing the Eradicability of a Disease), although the campaign was handicapped by the 1-year incubation period of the ...

DRACUNCULIASIS (GUINEA WORM DISEASE) IS A PARASITIC disease that is limited to remote, rural villages in 13 sub-Saharan African countries that do not have access to safe drinking water. It is one the ...

Dracunculiasis, also referred to as Guinea worm disease, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by the Dracunculus medinensis roundworm.

Dracunculiasis has plagued humankind for thousands of years. The Bible's Old Testament, dating to 1450 B.C., refers to the worm, according to the Carter Center.

In 1986, when the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), an estimated 3.5 million persons in 20 countries had the disease ...

The CDC and the Carter Center released some great news about Dracunculiasis this Halloween season. It's not victory over sparkly vampires, though; cases of guinea worms (Dracunculus medinensis ...

Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis — Latin for “affliction with little dragons” — is a plague so ancient that it has been found in Egyptian mummies and has been proposed by some to ...

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) is a parasitic infection transmitted by the ingestion of larvae in contaminated water. Dog feces are common vectors for infection.

The Carter Center said Wednesday there were just 14 cases in 2021, down from 3.5 million in 1986 when the eradication campaign began.

Worldwide Dracunculus medinensis incidence hit an all-time low of fewer than 3,200 cases in 2009, and just 766 cases were reported from January to June 2010, according to a CDC report published ...