Dracunculiasis

environmental factors, as well as social factors that sabotage efforts to control diseases (Sattenspiel, 2000). Neglected infectious diseases remain a major global health challenge and include a group of endemic diseases occurring in the impecunious regions of Asia, Africa, and America (Romero, Pimenta and Diament, 2012). The World Health Organization has a list of NIDs, of which Dracunculiasis is among (WHO, 2007). Dracunculiasis commonly known as…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

Dracunculiasis, also known as guinea worm disease is one of the leading risk for infection in Africa and Asia (CDC, 2002). In this case study, it discusses the eradication efforts to eliminate the disease in parts of Asia and sub-Saraharan Africa. The cause of guinea worm is from drinking unsanitary water from a well or pond that is polluted with copepods that carry guinea worm larvae (CDC, 2002). The eradication of the guinea worm disease started in the 1980 with a campaign started by the US…

gh Public Health Preparedness 11/6/15 Smallpox Basic Outline Introduction 1. The preparedness community has vastly changed since we first started working toward eradicating smallpox. They have made progressions in areas of communication plans, isolation and quarantine, environmental control, and checklist for different levels of government. 2. These developments and actions have helped toward the progression of eradicating other diseases. The smallpox health initiative action plan helped…

diseases are contrasted with the big three diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diseases can also make HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis more deadly. However, some pharmaceutical companies have committed to donating all the drug therapies required and mass drug administration has been successfully accomplished in several countries. Seventeen neglected tropical diseases are prioritized by WHO (World Health Organization). These diseases are common in 149 countries, affecting more than 1.4 billion people…