1. Charissa Kam Biol 402

2. But it’s completely preventable!

3.  Possibly the fiery serpent referenced in the Old Testament  “Affliction of little dragons”

4. http://www.gefor.4t.com/concurso/parasitologia/dracunculus.gif CDC

5. WHO

6. CDC

7. GWD is asymptomatic a year after infection.

8.  Blister and/or ulcer  Pain and Swelling  Burning Sensations  Emergence of Worm http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/ SWILLIAM/fgn/pnb/dracmed.html http://www.pasozyty.com.pl/Nitkowiec-podskorny-Filaria- medinensis.html

9. http://www.snl.no/dracunculiasis http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042- 96862009000900005&lng=pt&nrm=iso

10.  How? - Drink Clean Water - Don’t Contaminate Water - Filters - Education - Insecticides (ex: Abate®) Carter Center

11.  GWD accounts for 60% of school absences  “Disease of the Empty Granary”

12. "Hopefully Guinea worm will be the first parasitic disease ever eradicated. If and when that happens, we will have done it without a drug and without a vaccine to treat or prevent the disease. If we can do that, it will be one of the greatest achievements in public health." —Dr. Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program

13. WHO

15.  Hopefully this disease will be the 2 nd disease to be completely eradicated

16. The World Health Organization http://www.who.int/dracunculiasis/en/ http://www.who.int/topics/dracunculiasis/en/ http://www.who.int/dracunculiasis/background/en/index.html http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2008/WHO_HTM_NTD_PCT_2008.1_eng.p df Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/dracunculiasis/factsht_dracun culiasis.htm http://globalhealthedu.org/modules/Documents/109/player.html Carter Center http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html “The Imaging of Tropical Diseases. ”http://www.isradiology.org/tropical_deseases/tmcr/chapter27/epidemio logy.htm http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/06/guinea.worm.eradication/index.h tml?hpt=Sbin American Society for Microbiology http://cmr.asm.org/cgi/content/full/15/2/223#Treatment