Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

The other 'neglected' eradication programme: achieving the final mile for Guinea worm disease eradication?

[dracunculiasis]

Guinea worm disease is one of two diseases targeted for eradication, the other being polio. Since the late 1980s, the number of new cases per year has been reduced from approximately one million to some 25 000 in 2006. However, there was an increase from 2005 owing to improved surveillance in Sudan and problems in Ghana. The International Commission argues that more resources are required to ensure that the goal of eradication is completed. Elimination of transmission throughout Asia has now been confirmed and the disease is now confined to a small number of African countries requiring increased efforts to achieve the global goal.

Diseases presenting "small number" symptom

  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
  • aromatase deficiency
  • cadasil
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cohen syndrome
  • cushing syndrome
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • dracunculiasis
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • focal myositis
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • legionellosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • oligodontia
  • omenn syndrome
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • triple a syndrome
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
  • zellweger syndrome

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