Progress toward global eradication of dracunculiasis, January 2010-June 2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2011;60:1450-1453. PubMed. Google Scholar. 14. Renewed transmission of dracunculiasis ...

The global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program spearheaded by former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center has now reached its final stages (see graph).

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

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 ...

Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis — Worldwide, January 2022–June 2023.Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock. What is guinea worm disease?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Considering dracunculiasis eradication has had a recent setback with the disease infecting canines and spreading to humans from there, polio may prove to be the next disease successfully eradicated.

WHO prepares for major cross-border meetings in Sudan as eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease) draws closer in one of the disease's remaining hotspots.

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

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