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| Good, 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 #259. |
| Synopsis of Recent Developments |
CHAD’S CHALLENGE
Chad is now the country with the greatest number of remaining Guinea worms in the world, reporting a total of 2,044 emergent Guinea worms from 1,040 infected dogs, 25 infected cats, and 17 human cases in 2018.
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ARE FINGERLINGS A MAJOR SOURCE OF GUINEA WORM TRANSMISSION?
“Fingerlings,” small, juvenile fish which use copepods as a major food source, may be an important link between Guinea worm transmission to animals in Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali.
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MALI: DOG INFECTIONS PRESENT NEW THREAT
Following a destructive coup d’etat in 2012, Mali is recovering ground in its twenty-year-long fight against Guinea worm disease. Unfortunately, the program now must address endemic transmission in dogs, despite having stopped reported transmission to humans 3 years prior.
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ETHIOPIA: NO HUMAN CASES REPORTED, 17 ANIMAL INFECTIONS
Ethiopia reported no human cases of Guinea worm disease in 2018; however, the Ethiopian Dracunculiasis Eradication Program did detect Guinea worm infections in 11 dogs (6 contained), 5 cats (1 contained), and 1 baboon (uncontained) during the year, for an overall 41% containment of 17 infected animals.
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ANGOLA DISCOVERS A SECOND CONFIRMED HUMAN CASE
On January 9, 2019, Angolan authorities informed the World Health Organization that they had found an emerging worm in a 48-year-old female resident of Ndeleme I village in Cuvelai municipality of Cunene Province.
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