Guinea Worm -- Worldwide/Unknown
A provisional total of 53 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2019, The Carter Center announced Wednesday [29 Jan 2020].
Intensified surveillance and reporting incentives in endemic areas in recent years have produced expected fluctuations in the small number of Guinea worm cases. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of the program in 1986, about 3.5 million human cases occurred annually in 21 countries in Africa and Asia.
The campaign against the disease, also called
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6942866&promed&0
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