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The Carter Center announced today that in 2022, only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide.
The provisional figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported....
NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
Just 14* human cases of Guinea worm disease occurred worldwide in 2021, drawing nearer to the goal of global eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday. It is...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
In a follow-up on a post from April, officials in Ethiopia are reporting at least seven suspected human cases of dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm infections, in recent...
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) news release dated June 29, 2018:
WHO received confirmation of a human case of dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) in Angola – a country not known to...
Dracunculus medinensis. The “fiery serpent”. Guinea worm.
It is set to become the second human disease in history, after smallpox, to be eradicated. It will be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated...
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