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Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease)

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease). BY:Kaitlyn Fleming. What is Guinea Worm disease?. Guinea worm disease is a flatworm inside the intestinal tract or deep in the connective tissues. It’s a parasite found in Cyclops also know as water fleas. It’s a helminth. How its transmitted.

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Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease)

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  1. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) BY:Kaitlyn Fleming

  2. What is Guinea Worm disease? • Guinea worm disease is a flatworm inside the intestinal tract or deep in the connective tissues. • It’s a parasite found in Cyclops also know as water fleas. • It’s a helminth

  3. How its transmitted • Humans get infected by drinking water that has not been unfiltered.

  4. Test to see if diagnosed • Locate an adult worm in the lesion, or larvae from the adult female worm in ulcer.

  5. Symptoms • Pain in joints • Nausea • Fever • Pruritus • Blisters • Ulcers • Eosinophilia • Secondary infections

  6. Treatment • You remove the worm by winding the worm up to 3 feet (1 meter) around a small stick and manually extracting- slow and a very painful process that often takes weeks. • There are no vaccinations or drugs only medicine to relieve pain.

  7. History • Year it accrued: 15th century BC • Where it accrued: Egypt • Pathological examination of an Egyptian mummy in which a calcified worm was identify as dracunculiasis.

  8. Where it is at today • Its only in a couple of countries today.

  9. Map

  10. Facts about guinea worm • Will be the second that will truly end after small pox ending being number one. • There were 3.5 million cases in 1986. • It was only found in 21 countries that are in Africa and Asia. • Mostly in Sudan it’s the highest with 73% of the cases. • 2012 there are 542 cases in South Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, Chad.

  11. Age it affects • Affects all ages • Mostly common in farmers

  12. Morbidity • Dracunculiasis just make you weak and feel disabled. • No death rate

  13. Story • I don’t really have a story I just read about this disease and found it interesting.

  14. Emerging disease • Its an emerging disease

  15. Sources • www.Stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2001/dracunculiasis/DRACUNCULIASIS.html • www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/mini_site/facts.html

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