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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 #270. |
| Synopsis of Recent Developments |
51% GLOBAL REDUCTION IN HUMAN CASES IN JANUARY-JULY 2020 VS. THE SAME TIME PERIOD IN 2019
Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan have together reported 19 indigenous human cases of Guinea worm disease in January-July 2020, compared to 41 cases reported by Angola, Cameroon, Chad and South Sudan during the same period of 2019. This number demonstrates a global reduction of 51% in human cases in these countries.
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CHAD: 27% FEWER DOG INFECTIONS
Chad’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program continues to record impressive progress against dog infections. It has reported a provisional total of 1,143 infected dogs in January-July 2020, compared to 1,563 dog infections in January-July 2019, for a year-to-date reduction of 27%.
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ETHIOPIA: ONE SUSPECT HUMAN CASE & EIGHT SUSPECT INFECTED ANIMALS
Ethiopia’s Dracunculiasis Eradication Program is still following up on the outbreak of seven confirmed human Guinea worm cases in April 2020, all of which resulted from exposure to a shared source of contaminated drinking water near Duli village in Gog district of Gambella Region.
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SOUTH SUDAN: ONE CONFIRMED HUMAN CASE
The South Sudan Guinea Worm Eradication Program reported one contained case of Guinea worm disease in a 20-year-old man whose worm emerged and was detected in the town of Tonj on July 8, by county health department surveillance officers.
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MALI: ONE DOG INFECTION IN JULY
The National Program Coordinator Dr. Cheick Oumar Coulibaly and Carter Center Country Representative Mr. Sadi Moussa made a supervisory visit to Tominian district in Segou Region and Mopti and Djenne districts in Mopti Region on July 15-23, 2020. A suspected infected dog of unknown origin was reported in Ouan village during their visit.
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GUINEA WORM IS ENDEMIC IN ANGOLA
In July, the reference laboratory at the CDC confirmed that the recently-received specimen from a 15-year-old boy, whose worm emerged in the village of Ofenda in Namacunde municipality of Angola’s Cunene Province in March 2020, is Dracunculus medinensis. With confirmed indigenous Guinea worm infections for three consecutive years, Angola is now officially a Guinea worm endemic country.
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SUSPECT CASE IN VIETNAM IS NOT D. MEDINENSIS
A young man was admitted to Vietnam’s National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in May 2020 with abcesses on his legs and arms from which doctors removed worms about 1-2 feet long (3060 centimeters). The doctors provided specimens of the worms to WHO, which sent them to the reference laboratory at the CDC where laboratory examination found this to be a Dracunculus worm, but not D. medinensis.
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