As The Carter Center counts down to the end of Guinea worm disease, we are pleased to bring you the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guinea Worm Wrap-Up.
  | | As The Carter Center counts down to the end of Guinea worm disease, we are pleased to bring you the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guinea Worm Wrap-Up #280. | | Synopsis of Recent Developments | MALI REPORTS A HUMAN CASE
A nine-year-old boy with an emerging Guinea worm was hospitalized on August 3rd after a worm began emerging from his right foot that day.
Full Report » | CHAD
Chad has provisionally reported 58% fewer infections in dogs, from 1,229 in January-July 2020 to 518 cases in the same period during 2021. Chad also reduced Guinea worm cases in humans by 64% from 11 to 4 cases, and infected cats by 55% from 40 to 18 cases in the same period. The similar reductions in infections in response to interventions implemented in 2020 may suggest a shared modality of transmission among the three definitive host species in Chad.
Full Report » | SOUTH SUDAN: TWO CONFIRMED CASES AND ONE SUSPECT CASE
On August 13, Director General of Preventive Health Services in the South Sudan Ministry of Health, Dr. John Rumunu announced that laboratory tests had confirmed a case of Guinea worm. The patient is a 13-year-old Nuer girl whose infection was contained. The worm emerged on July 23 and was fully extracted on July 26.
Full Report » | ETHIOPIA
The Ethiopian Dracunculiasis Eradication Program has reported one human case (contained) of Guinea worm disease and no infected animals so far in 2021, compared to seven humans, three dogs, three baboons, and four cats detected in January-July 2020. A total of 1,942 dogs and 268 cats were proactively tethered in Gog and Abobo districts of Gambella Region as of June 2021.
Full Report » | ANGOLA
Angola continues to make progress in expanding and strengthening community-based surveillance activities in Cunene, which is the only province in Angola where indigenous transmission of dracunculiasis has been confirmed. Angola reported zero human cases and zero infected animals so far in 2021.
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