Also known as dracunculiasis, from the Latin for "little dragons", the worm is a particularly painful water-borne parasite that can leave people weakened and sick for months every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medindia Health News] Reference

It is also lethal to the waterflea that harbors dracunculiasis (guinea worm).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The World Health Organisation said Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, now only affects around 25,000 people in nine countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bye bye Guinea worm | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

In 1997, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution reiterating its request that dracunculiasis be eradicated as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

The number of cases of Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, in Africa had declined by 98,5 percent from 1989 to 2002, he told delegates.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For information concerning the eradication of dracunculiasis, please contact Dr Nevio Zagaria or P. Cattand, dracunculiasis Eradication, WHO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

Snails and water fleas, also depending on aquatic habitats, will have an impact on the schistosomiasis and dracunculiasis (see below) situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

(Bancroftian and Malayan), blackflies for onchocerciasis, Chrysops flies for loiasis and tiny crustaceans (Cyclops) for dracunculiasis (Guinea worm).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

The World Health Organization has certified 180 countries free of transmission of dracunculiasis, including six formerly endemic countries: Pakistan (in 1996), India (in 2000), Senegal and Yemen (in 2004), Central African Republic and Cameroon (in 2007).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracunculiasis] Reference

· monitoring of the dracunculiasis situation through the use of geographical information systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

These result in malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, dracunculiasis, helminthiasis, schizosomiasis, asthma, bronchitis and heart diseases that are taking their toll on millions of people living in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

But it is also one of the world's worst areas for Guinea worm. dracunculiasis, from the Latin for "little dragons", the worm is a particularly painful water-borne parasite that can leave people weakened and sick for months every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Guardian Online] Reference

The most widespread types are dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, in which a worm up to a meter long eventually and painfully emerges from the victim's skin; and schistosomiasis, a blood infection from a parasitic flatworm that causes chronic debilitation as well as liver and intestinal damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [JustNews.com - Local News] Reference

What is dracunculiasis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracunculiasis] Reference

1.1 What is dracunculiasis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracunculiasis] Reference

(dracunculiasis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference