2018/06/05 by Donald R. Hopkins, Ernesto Ruiz‐Tiben, Mark L. Eberhard +4 · 1 citation
Medicine · Immunology and Microbiology · Environmental Science · #Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment #Parasites and Host Interactions #Parasite Biology and Host Interactions #Dracunculiasis #Helminthiasis #Environmental health #Transmission (telecommunications) #Cyclops #Epidemiology #Disease transmission #Medicine #Geography #Biology #Helminths #Virology #Immunology #Ecology #Pathology
paper · pdf · doi:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0204
openalex publication_date 2018/06/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
This report summarizes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of the end of 2017. Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 19 of 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad and Ethiopia reported cases in humans, 15 each, in 2017. Infections of animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis were reported in those two countries and also in Mali. Insecurity and infections in animals are the two main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely.