Guinea Worm Infection WisdomCard™

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  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Dracunculiasis cdc.gov - Dracunculiasis
  2. World Health Organization (WHO): Water-Related Diseases Guinea-Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis) who.int - Water-Related Diseases Guinea-Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis)
  3. Unite for Children (UNICEF): UNICEF and European Commission support Guinea Worm Eradication In Ghana (June 15, 2007)unicef.org - UNICEF and European Commission support Guinea Worm Eradication In Ghana
  4. HealthAtoZ: Guinea Worm Infection healthatoz.com - Guinea Worm Infection
  5. eMedicine: Dracunculiasis emedicine.com - Dracunculiasis
  6. About.com: Guinea Worm Infection-Drancunculiasis infectiousdiseases.about.com - Guinea Worm Infection-Drancunculiasis
  7. WrongDiagnosis: Guinea Worm Disease wrongdiagnosis.com - Guinea Worm Disease
  8. Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE): Guinea Worm Disease dhpe.org - Guinea Worm Disease
  9. Topical Medicine Central Resource: Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis) tmcr.usuhs.mil - Guinea Worm Infection (Dracunculiasis)
  10. National Public Radio (NPR): Stamping Out Guinea Worm (Mar. 3, 2007)npr.org - Stamping Out Guinea Worm


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Research Notes on Guinea Worm Infection


Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea Worm Disease (GWD), is an infection caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis. Persons with emergent worms enter sources of drinking water and unwittingly allow the worm to release larvae into the water. These larvae are ingested by microscopic fresh-water arthropods known as Copepods. Inside the copepods, the larvae develop into the infective stage in 10–14 days. In turn, humans may then become infected by drinking water containing infected copepods. Worldwide, there were about 3.5 million cases reported in 1986, over 30,000 cases in 2003, and only about 16,000 cases in 2004. ...read more from Wikipedia

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