Cash rewards for reporting cases of dracunculiasis, which can be as high as $100, also work well to boost surveillance systems.

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 ...

Modern cases of dracunculiasis are called by a simpler name, guinea worm disease. This change in names is due to an early modern observation of the disease in humans living along the Guinea Coast ...

Since the World Health Assembly called for dracunculiasis elimination in 1986, incidence of the disease declined to 542 reported cases in 2012, according to the CDC. This represents a decrease of ...

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

Since 2003, all indigenous cases of dracunculiasis in Sudan have been reported from Southern Sudan. The Southern Sudan Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP) reported 2,733 cases of dracunculiasis ...

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 disease is also known as dracunculiasis, or "affliction with little dragons," because the worm feels like hot coals as it exits from the skin. Back in 1986, more than 3.5 million people got ...

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

There were 12 cases in Ethiopia, eight cases in Ghana and one case in Mali. The first call for elimination of dracunculiasis came in 1986 at the World Health Assembly.

Dracunculiasis is transmitted to humans through drinking water contaminated with microscopic copepods (water fleas) that are infected with larvae of the worm.