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Case Study: Guinea Worm
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- Area affected: Mainly in Africa between the Sahara and the Equator
- Causes: Drinking standing water that contains water fleas that have ingested Guinea Worm Larvae or drinking the larvae themselves
- Consequences: Swelling of limbs and painful blisters. These develop into open wounds which hatch more worms and larvae on contact with water, ready to infect a new set of victims.
- Prevention: Charities and Aid organisations such As INTERACTION and the WHO are helping to educate people into straining water, keeping infected people away from shared water sources and destroying organisms with larvacide.
- Successes: In the 1980’s there were 3.5 million people infected now it is about 64,000
