South Sudan has gone 15 months without a single reported case of Guinea worm disease, the nation's health minister said on Wednesday, suggesting a major victory for global health officials trying to eliminate the debilitating affliction. Also, the Carter Centre said only 30 cases were reported last year in isolated …
South Sudan has gone 15 months without a single reported case of Guinea worm disease, the nation's health minister said on Wednesday, suggesting a major victory for global health officials trying to eliminate the debilitating affliction. Also, the Carter Centre said only 30 cases were reported last year in isolated …
A third-stage (infective) larva of Dracunculus medinensis, the causative agent of Guinea worm disease, was recovered from a wild-caught Phrynobatrachus francisci frog in Chad. Although green frogs (Lithobates clamitans) have been experimentally infected with D. medinensis worms, our findings prove that frogs can serve as natural paratenic hosts.
The government of African country Mali has stepped up efforts to eradicate guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) from the country. It appears that Niagassadiou, a village in the Mopti region of south central Mali, is the source of the infection that has spread all over west Africa. When these villagers migrate …
if incidence of cases and reports released by the health ministry are to be believed, then the guinea worm ( Dracunculus medinensis) , a nematode worm which lives under the skin, has been wiped out from India. Not a single case has been reported since 1996 as compared to 40,000 …
• The Goldman Environmental Foundation, US, recently awarded the annual environmental prize for Asia, worth US $75,000 to M C Mehta, a Supreme Court lawyer who has won about 40 landmark environmental judgements since 1984. • To give a boost to composite mariculture in the coastal areas, the Central Marine …
The dreaded guinea worm disease will be eradicated in India by 1995, claims UNICEF. UNICEF country representative for India Jon Eliot Rhode told newspersons the number of guinea worm cases have reduced drastically over the past decade. Figures provided by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), the nodal agency …
