Dracunculiasis Eradication: End-Stage Challenges

• DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0197
• Publication Date: 2022-06-27T12:40:41Z
• Authors: Donald R. Hopkins; Adam J. Weiss; Fernando J. Torre...; Sarah G. H. Sapp; Kashef Ijaz
• Keywords: Dracunculiasis; Disease Eradication

This report summarizes the status of global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as end 2021. (Guinea worm disease) has been eliminated from 17 21 countries where it was endemic in 1986, when an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred worldwide. Only Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan reported humans Mali also indigenous infections animals, mostly domestic dogs, with Dracunculus medinensis. Insecurity animals are main obstacles remaining to interrupting dracunculiasis transmission completely.