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Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges
This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2021. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 17 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad, Ethiopia, Mali,...
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author | Hopkins, Donald R. Weiss, Adam J. Torres-Velez, Fernando J. Sapp, Sarah G. H. Ijaz, Kashef |
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description | This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2021. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 17 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan reported cases in humans in 2021. Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali also reported indigenous infections of animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis. Insecurity and infections in animals are the main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely. |
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spelling | pubmed-93934502022-08-22 Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges Hopkins, Donald R. Weiss, Adam J. Torres-Velez, Fernando J. Sapp, Sarah G. H. Ijaz, Kashef Am J Trop Med Hyg Research Article This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2021. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 17 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan reported cases in humans in 2021. Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali also reported indigenous infections of animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis. Insecurity and infections in animals are the main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2022-08 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9393450/ /pubmed/35895421 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.22-0197 Text en © The author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hopkins, Donald R. Weiss, Adam J. Torres-Velez, Fernando J. Sapp, Sarah G. H. Ijaz, Kashef Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title | Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title_full | Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title_fullStr | Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title_short | Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges |
title_sort | dracunculiasis eradication: end-stage challenges |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35895421 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.22-0197 |
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