dracunculiasis

The major parasitic disease which has been documented in early records is dracunculiasis.

The medical name for this condition is dracunculiasis.

Fairley also carried out pioneering work on Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis).

This method was used in Indian state of Karnataka to eradicate dracunculiasis.

We also decided to help eradicate a crippling disease called Guinea worm (dracunculiasis), which has afflicted people throughout recorded history.

A guinea worm, dracunculiasis, is extracted from a child's foot in Savelugu, Ghana.

Dracunculus medinensis is a nematode that causes dracunculiasis.

Ethiopia is amongst the 12 dracunculiasis endemic countries and that also agreed to take concerted actions to interrupt local transmission of the disease by 2009.

Nonetheless, 23 indigenous cases were reported in 2009 from Gambella Regional state making it difficult to make progress towards a Dracunculiasis free country.

As an example of water-borne Nematode infections, one important waterborne nematodal disease is Dracunculiasis.

Jackals infected with D. medinensis can infect water bodies with their eggs, and cause dracunculiasis in people who drink from them.

Between January and March 2011 194 cases of dracunculiasis were reported from 93 villages and six counties in South Sudan.

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm)

They are victims of dracunculiasis - Guinea worm disease, so-called because people become infected by swallowing contaminated water carrying worm larvae.

Guinea worm disease is a parasitic infection known as dracunculiasis that can be prevented by boiling or filtering drinking water through a finely woven cloth.

Guinea-worm (dracunculiasis)

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,"Dracunculiasis eradication: the final inch"

In 1877 he was exiled to Yemen, where he described the disease Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease).

Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease)

The unusually high incidence of dracunculiasis in the city of Medina led to it being included in part of the disease's scientific name "medinensis."

Hospitals are distant, walking is difficult and villagers know there is no vaccine and no cure for infection with Guinea worm, formally known as dracunculiasis.

Though not as common, other regularly treated diseases include dracunculiasis, dysentery, river blindness or onchocerciasis, several kinds of pneumonia, dehydration, venereal diseases, and poliomyelitis.

DNA fingerprinting can differentiate between D. medinensis and D. insignis, which is important to efforts to eradicate dracunculiasis.

Insect borne diseases are common is South Sudan and may include chloroquine resistant forms of plasmodium falciparum malaria, leishmaniasis and dracunculiasis.

He also discovered the life cycle of Dracunculus which causes Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD).