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Progress toward global dracunculiasis eradication, June 2000.
[dracunculiasis]
In
1986
,
an
estimated
3
million
persons
were
infected
with
dracunculiasis
(
Guinea
worm
disease
)
and
another
120
million
were
at
risk
for
infection
.
That
year
and
in
1991
,
the
World
Health
Assembly
called
for
the
eradication
of
dracunculiasis
,
and
as
a
result
of
the
implementation
of
the
Dracunculiasis
Eradication
Program
(
DEP
)
,
the
annual
incidence
was
reduced
by
approximately
95
%
by
1995
.
This
report
updates
the
status
of
the
eradication
program
as
of
June
2000
,
which
indicates
that
dracunculiasis
has
been
eliminated
from
seven
of
20
countries
where
it
was
endemic
in
1995
;
however
,
in
parts
of
Africa
,
particularly
Sudan
,
dracunculiasis
remains
a
serious
public
health
problem
.