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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 #274. |
| Synopsis of Recent Developments |
FEWER GUINEA WORM INFECTIONS IN 2020
The Guinea Worm Eradication Program reduced Guinea worm cases in humans by 50% and animal infections by 20% overall last year, for a provisional total of 27 human cases and 1,598 infected animals in 2020.
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SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan is the closest of the endemic countries to stopping transmission. South Sudan’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program reported six cases in four localities in 2016, zero cases in 2017, 10 cases in 2018, 4 cases in 2019, and has provisionally reported one case (contained) in 2020. It has found only one infected animal, a dog in a household with human cases in 2015.
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MALI
In 2016-2020, Mali provisionally reported only one human case (2020), but found 54 infected dogs and four cats.
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CHAD
Chad is the farthest country from interrupting Guinea worm transmission, reporting about 1,000 infected animals (mostly dogs, a few cats, and rarely wild cats) and 12-48 human cases annually in 2016-2020. Most infections are believed to be transmitted by eating raw or poorly cooked fish, but Chad’s GWEP reported a common-source water-borne outbreak of human cases in 2019.
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ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia provisionally reported 11 humans and 15 animals (eight cats, four baboons, and three dogs) with Guinea worm infections in 2020, after finding a total of 18 human cases and 56 infected animals in 2016-2019.
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ANGOLA
Angola was officially declared endemic in 2020, after three consecutive years with confirmed infections, but the level of Guinea worm endemicity is still uncertain. Only three human cases and one infected dog have been detected since the first case was discovered in 2018: one human each year, and a dog in 2019.
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| The Carter Center has been fighting Guinea worm disease since 1986 with a global coalition of partners, including the Ministries of Health of endemic countries, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others. |
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