Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease is, by all accounts, pretty awful: A person with the disease hosts a parasitic worm that forms a painful blister under the skin that eventually bursts ...

There is currently no treatment for dracunculiasis, and prevention is the safest and most effective measure to avoid its transmission. The Ministry of Health has implemented all the interventions ...

In this context, the WHO in Angola will carry out a mission to Cunene province from 15 to 17 July 2024 to strengthen partnerships to combat dracunculiasis. The mission will include meetings with the ...

Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, is an extremely rare neglected tropical disease primarily affecting remote and impoverished communities in parts of Africa. People become infected with the ...

‘dracunculiasis-free.’ Unfortunately, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Sudan, and most recently, Angola continue to suffer from disease outcomes, with civil unrest in these countries hampering ...

Journal reference: Hopkins DR, Weiss AJ, Yerian S, Sapp SG, Cama VA. Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis — Worldwide, January 2022–June 2023.

The World Health Organisation has certified the Democratic Republic of the Congo free of transmission of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite that causes dracunculiasis -Guinea-worm disease.

Dracunculiasis is one of the three diseases targeted by WHO for global eradication, together with yaws (another neglected tropical disease) and poliomyelitis.

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 World Health Organization (WHO ...

Press Release - International cross-border coordination meeting to strengthen Guinea worm surveillance and response in areas bordering Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan, 13-14 November 2022 ...

Scientifically known by the name dracunculiasis, Guinea worm is a parasitic infection usually contracted through tainted drinking water which produces a painful blister that a very long, small ...

The World Health Organization planned to eradicate dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, by 2030. But complicating matters is a new study revealing a novel zoonotic pathway of transmission.