Guinea Worm Wrap-Up: #237, November 17, 2015

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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!
  
  83% case reduction worldwide in January-October
  
  Only 20 cases of Guinea worm disease (40% contained) were reported worldwide in January-October 2015 compared to 115 cases (71% contained) reported during the same period of 2014 (Figure 1). This is a provisional reduction of 83%. Zero cases were reported worldwide in January and again in September 2015. So far this year Chad has reported 9 cases (0 contained), South Sudan 4 cases (2 contained), Mali 4 cases (3 contained), and Ethiopia 3 cases (3 contained). Specimens from two cases (1 each in Ethiopia and Mali) have not yet been confirmed in the laboratory.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Dracunculiasis/prevention & Control Dracunculus Nematode
• Series:
  Guinea Worm Wrap-Up
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Pages in Document:
  14 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  237
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36129/cdc_36129_DS1.pdf
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