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Dracunculiasis eradication: neglected no longer.
[dracunculiasis]
This
report
summarizes
the
status
of
the
global
Dracunculiasis
Eradication
Program
as
of
early
2008
.
By
the
end
of
2007
,
dracunculiasis
(
Guinea
worm
disease
)
transmission
had
been
eliminated
from
15
of
the
20
countries
where
the
disease
was
endemic
in
1986
,
only
9
,
585
cases
were
reported
worldwide
,
and
2
,
016
villages
still
had
indigenous
cases
of
the
disease
.
Two
of
the
remaining
affected
countries
(
Nigeria
and
Niger
)
reported
<
100
cases
in
2007
and
are
on
the
verge
of
eliminating
dracunculiasis
if
they
have
not
stopped
transmission
already
.
Sudan
,
Ghana
,
and
Mali
are
addressing
their
final
challenges
to
interrupting
all
remaining
transmission
by
the
end
of
2009
.
