Download Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease)

Charissa Kam
Biol 402
But it’s completely
preventable!
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Possibly the fiery serpent referenced in the
Old Testament
“Affliction of little dragons”
http://www.gefor.4t.com/concurso/parasitologia/dracunculus.gif
CDC
WHO
CDC
GWD is asymptomatic a year after
infection.
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Blister and/or ulcer
Pain and Swelling
Burning Sensations
Emergence of Worm
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/
SWILLIAM/fgn/pnb/dracmed.html
http://www.pasozyty.com.pl/Nitkowiec-podskorny-Filariamedinensis.html
http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S004296862009000900005&lng=pt&nrm=iso
http://www.snl.no/dracunculiasis
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How?
- Drink Clean Water
- Don’t Contaminate Water
- Filters
- Education
- Insecticides (ex: Abate®)
Carter Center
Carter Center
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GWD accounts for 60% of school absences
“Disease of the Empty Granary”
"Hopefully Guinea worm will be the first parasitic
disease ever eradicated. If and when that
happens, we will have done it without a drug
and without a vaccine to treat or prevent the
disease. If we can do that, it will be one of the
greatest achievements in public health."
—Dr. Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, director,
Guinea Worm Eradication Program
WHO
WHO
WHO
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Hopefully this disease will be the 2nd disease
to be completely eradicated
The World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/dracunculiasis/en/
http://www.who.int/topics/dracunculiasis/en/
http://www.who.int/dracunculiasis/background/en/index.html
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2008/WHO_HTM_NTD_PCT_2008.1_eng.p
df
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/dracunculiasis/factsht_dracun
culiasis.htm
http://globalhealthedu.org/modules/Documents/109/player.html
Carter Center
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
“The Imaging of Tropical Diseases.
”http://www.isradiology.org/tropical_deseases/tmcr/chapter27/epidemio
logy.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/06/guinea.worm.eradication/index.h
tml?hpt=Sbin
American Society for Microbiology
http://cmr.asm.org/cgi/content/full/15/2/223#Treatment