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1 Citation Save the guinea worm? Posted by: Paul Chinnock - Editorial Team Is this a piece of satire intended to raise awareness of dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) or do they really mean it? If efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease succeed (and there is indeed encouraging progress to report), then it will also mean the eradication of the guinea worm itself. The ?Save the Guinea Worm Foundation? seems to be alarmed at this prospect. The authors of this website say that they are not too upset th, technorati.com
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Nigeria hopes 2009 will be its first year without guinea worm 1 Citation Just 38 cases of guinea worm ( dracunculiasis ) were reported in Nigeria in 2008 and so far this year there have been none. Speaking on National Guinea Worm Day, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, said, ?By the end of this year, we will have been one year free of reported cases, which leaves us with the challenges of achieving three years of active and intensive surveillance before certification by WHO .? The progress made underscored the, technorati.com
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