During his tour of Ghana that year, Carter saw hundreds of people affected by the guinea worm, an infection known as dracunculiasis — a disease caused by the nematode parasite Dracunculus ...

A parasitic disease affecting mammals, medieval serfs deemed what we now know as dracunculiasis as an invasion of tiny dragons — dragons that eventually burrowed out of the skin. Multiple ...

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 ...

According to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dracunculiasis, also referred to as Guinea worm disease, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by the Dracunculus ...

Although dracunculiasis and poliomyelitis are now the only officially sanctioned targets of eradication campaigns, the WHO has designated the campaign against lymphatic filariasis as the Global ...

Dracunculiasis is transmitted to humans through drinking water contaminated with microscopic copepods (water fleas) that are infected with larvae of the worm. About a year after a person has ...

Dracunculiasis is a parasitic infection caused by Dracunculus medinensis. Persons become infected by drinking water from ponds contaminated by copepods (water fleas) that contain immature forms of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to hold two days of high-level meetings with representatives of Sudan and other dracunculiasis-affected neighbouring countries in order to ...

Q: Which doctor should I consult for painful skin blister in the leg to rule out Guinea worm disease? A: Guinea worm disease is usually endemic in backward communities of certain regions of Africa ...

The newly added report by Data Bridge Market Research entitled Global Dracunculiasis Disease Market Size, Share, Growth, Industry Trends and Forecast to 2028 gives productive ideas, the potential of ...

Italian researchers examining a medieval painting may have found the earliest visual depiction of dracunculiasis, a horrifying parasitic infection in which a worm up to 3 feet long creeps out of ...