NOUN
- parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
- a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
How To Use Guinea worm In A Sentence
- Regular contact with water also makes women prone to water-borne diseases such as Schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and dracunculosis (spread by guinea worms).
- Not surprisingly, dracunculiasis, the disease caused by the guinea worm, is particularly bad in deserts, where people crowd around oases. Parasite Rex
- Beyond polio and guinea worm, the current list of potentially eradicable human pathogens is quite short.
- Beyond polio and guinea worm, the current list of potentially eradicable human pathogens is quite short.
- The number of cases of Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, in Africa had declined by 98,5 percent from 1989 to 2002, he told delegates. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Guinea worm, also known as dracunculus medinensis, is a crippling parasitic disease transmitted by larvae in contaminated drinking water. Spero News
- Guinea worm disease, also known as dracunculiasis, is one such disease. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Like guinea worms, O. volvulus has no vaccine, but it does have a partial cure. Parasite Rex
- ** After all, the only danger copepods can create for humans is when they act as vectors for dracunculiasis aka guinea worms (don't click this link if you're squeamish and for god's sake, do NOT do an image search for guinea worm. Kate rothwell
- The global campaign to eradicate guinea worm started in 1980, when there were about 3.5 million cases of the disease, also known as dracunculiasis, every year across Africa and Asia. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
