Thursday 30 August 2012

WHO: to defeat 'guinea worm'


WHO: to defeat 'guinea worm'
August 29, 2012 13:16 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(Reuters) - GENEVA - Countdown to the elimination of the global Guinea worm disease, or dracunculosi, which could soon be declared the first parasitic disease ever eradicated without drugs or vaccines. In the first six months of 2012 were in fact reported 396 cases of dracunculosi compared to over 800 in the first six months of 2011, stressed the Organizzazioe World Health 'Organization (WHO) in Geneva. Over 90% of confirmed cases this year have hit the South Sudan.


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