Guinea+Worm+(Dracunculiasis+medinensis)+Cammie+and+Bo

Guinea Worms
 * Infected persons do not usually have symptoms until about one year after they become infected.
 * A few days to hours before the worm emerges, the person may develop a fever, swelling, and pain in the area.
 * Emergence of the adult female worm can be very painful, slow, and disabling.
 * Frequently, the skin lesions caused by the worm develop secondary bacterial infections, which exacerbate the pain, and extend the period of incapacitation to weeks or months.


 * Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is a preventable infection caused by the parasite //Dracunculus medinensis//.
 * Infection affects poor communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have safe water to drink.

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