Guinea Worm Wrap-Up: #206, July 15, 2011

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• Journal Article:
  Guinea worm wrap-up
• Corporate Authors:
  WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training and Eradication of Dracunculiasis. ; Emory University. Carter Center ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Detect every case!!! Contain every worm!! Trace every source!
  
  Number of uncontained cases in January-June 2011 -- South Sudan: 183 Mali: 2 Ethiopia: 1 Chad: 1
  
  SOUTH SUDAN: INDEPENDENCE FROM GUINEA WORM IS COMING SOON
  
  We congratulate the people of South Sudan On their political independence, and look forward to their winning independence from Guinea worm disease soon! With the political independence of South Sudan, we have acquired another Guinea worm-free country, namely Sudan, the former northern states that interrupted indigenous transmission of the disease in 2002.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Dracunculiasis/prevention & Control Dracunculus Nematode
• Series:
  Guinea Worm Wrap-Up
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  South Sudan ; Sudan
• Pages in Document:
  10 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  206
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b6b8920251d078776db9ddb40aa02fa442db91a1924f27f81ed3740790aa9ffad47585b012b950f22d08a8c865c5c443e67ea69d676a4dec0c6f28eb2c9a6a75
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29480/cdc_29480_DS1.pdf
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