Guinea Worm Wrap-Up: #182, July 7, 2008

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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:
  SUDAN AND GHANA REDUCE CASES BY -73% IN JANUARY-MAY 2008
  
  Sudan and Ghana, which together have reported 94% of all cases of dracunculiasis so far this year, have collectively recorded 1,331 cases in January-May 2008, compared to 4,936 cases during the same period of 2007, yielding a combined reduction of -73% thus far. As illustrated in Figure 1, the cumulative number of cases reported by all five remaining endemic countries is reduced by -72% so far this year, compared to a reduction of -48% between January-May 2006 and the same period of 2007.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Dracunculiasis/prevention & Control Dracunculus Nematode
• Series:
  Guinea Worm Wrap-Up
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Pages in Document:
  12 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  182
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b101c32795e88261ba75532d6fb4dee6cf0d3288278196a328816959e2815b48306352ac86166d339c46bd15d6405125a7e5cc84071a479504874e1108bf956c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29586/cdc_29586_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.01 MB ]