How To Use Guinea worm In A Sentence
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Regular contact with water also makes women prone to water-borne diseases such as Schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and dracunculosis (spread by guinea worms).
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Not surprisingly, dracunculiasis, the disease caused by the guinea worm, is particularly bad in deserts, where people crowd around oases.
Parasite Rex
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Beyond polio and guinea worm, the current list of potentially eradicable human pathogens is quite short.
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Beyond polio and guinea worm, the current list of potentially eradicable human pathogens is quite short.
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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
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Guinea worm, also known as dracunculus medinensis, is a crippling parasitic disease transmitted by larvae in contaminated drinking water.
Spero News
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Guinea worm disease, also known as dracunculiasis, is one such disease.
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Like guinea worms, O. volvulus has no vaccine, but it does have a partial cure.
Parasite Rex
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** 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
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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
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Diseases like leprosy, Guinea worm and river blindness are endemic.
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
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The common diseases in Nigeria are nutritional such as kwashiorkor and marasmus; parasitic like malaria and water borne such as cholera and guinea worm.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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The World Health Organisation said Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, now only affects around 25,000 people in nine countries.
Bye bye Guinea worm | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Contracted and spread by drinking infected water, Guinea worm affects some of the world's most vulnerable people.
