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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 #279. |
| Synopsis of Recent Developments |
HUMAN CASES REDUCED BY 75%
ANIMAL INFECTIONS REDUCED BY 62%
The global Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP) has found only five laboratory-confirmed cases of Guinea worm disease in the first six months of 2021, which is a reduction of 75% in cases compared to the first six months of 2020. Four (80%) of the five cases were contained. Angola, Cameroon, Mali, and South Sudan have reported zero cases so far this year. Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali have reported a provisional total of 419 Guinea worm infections (81% contained) in animals in the first six months of 2021, which is a 62% reduction in infections compared to the first six months of 2020.
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MALI: TWO INITIATIVES AIM TO FINISH THE WORM
Mali’s GWEP (MGWEP) detected zero human cases, 46 infected dogs, and 4 infected cats from 2016–2019, compared to one human case and 9 infected dogs in 2020. To help prevent exposure of dogs and cats in at-risk areas and improve containment of known infected animals, the MGWEP is promoting proactive tethering of all dogs and cats in communities and strengthening active surveillance.
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CHAD: INTENSIVE OFFENSIVE
Chad’s GWEP (CGWEP) continues to benefit from its escalated interventions in approximately 2,000 villages under active surveillance since 2017. Containment rates of infected dogs averaged 76% in 2017–2019, and increased to 81% in 2020 and 2021. The CGWEP increased Abate coverage of endemic villages sharply from 24% in 2018, to 68% in 2019, and 96% in 2020. Beginning in March 2020, it added proactive tethering of all or most domestic dogs and cats in priority villages at risk.
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ETHIOPIA: LOOKING TO FIND AND CONTAIN THE LAST GUINEA WORM
In 2012–2020, endemic Guinea worm transmission in Ethiopia occurred only at a low level, where a total of 60 domestic dogs, 46 humans, 13 domestic cats, and 20 wild baboons were found to be infected. No human cases occurred in 2018–2019 before a point-source outbreak of 11 cases in 2020. The Ethiopian Dracunculiasis Eradication Program reported one confirmed human case in February 2021.
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