Guinea worm announcement

c/o The Carter Center Guinea Worm Eradication Program

"13 Human Cases of Guinea Worm Reported in 2023 – Remaining at the Lowest Level Since the Eradication Campaign Began"

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"Dracunculiasis is a crippling parasitic disease on the verge of eradication, with 27 human cases reported in 2020. From the time infection occurs, it takes between 10–14 months for the transmission cycle to complete. About this time, a mature female worm emerges from the body. The parasite is transmitted mostly when people drink stagnant water contaminated with parasite-infected water fleas. Dracunculiasis was endemic in 20 countries in the mid-1980s."

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"March 27 is the anniversary of the start of the Guinea worm cease-fire that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter brokered in 1995 during the Second Sudanese Civil War."

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SUN & AMON (2018). Addressing Inequity: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights. Health and Human Rights, 20(1), 11–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90023050	"Two boys drink through pipe filters at Kuse Dam, Terekeka County, Southern Sudan, in 2010. During the 1995 Guinea worm cease-fire, health workers distributed 200,000 cloth household filters. Both types of filter strain Guinea worm larvae out of water, making it safe to drink."
Curtis, V. (2011). Why disgust matters. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 366(1583), 3478–3490. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23035750	AMON & ADDISS (2018). “Equipping Practitioners”: Linking Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights. Health and Human Rights, 20(1), 5–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90023049

See also: 'Noma'

My source: Times Radio UK