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The Tortoise and the Hare: Guinea Worm, Polio and the Race to Eradication.
PLoS Curr, 2015 Sutton B, Canyon D.
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Global eradication of Guinea worm
Parasitology Today, 1997Little more than a decade ago, it was estimated that over three million cases of dracunculiasis occurred worldwide. Since then, the numbers have fallen dramatically, thanks to the water supply initiatives of the 1980s and, more recently, the national guinea worm eradication programmes implemented in a score of endemic countries.
H, Periès, S, Cairncross
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication
2006Since the seminal review by Ralph Muller about Dracunculus and dracunculiasis in this serial publication in 1971, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Carter Center forged, during the 1980s, a coalition of organizations to support a campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis.
Ernesto, Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R, Hopkins
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Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis)
2010Guinea-worm disease (dracunculiasis)—now limited to sub-Saharan Africa—is caused by the nematode Dracunculus medinensis, whose life cycle involves water-borne copepod crustaceans and humans, who acquire the infection when they drink water containing infective larvae. Clinical presentation is usually with a skin blister, most often on the leg, sometimes
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