WOUND CARE
A Guinea worm health worker ins Savelugu, Ghana dresses a child's extremely painful Guinea worm wound. In May of 2010, with Carter Center support, Ghana reported its last case of Guinea worm disease and announced it had stopped disease transmission a year later.
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REMOVING A GUINEA WORM
Patients in Savelugu, Ghana with Guinea worm, soak their hanging worms or wounds prior to their daily morning treatment at containment centers to facilitate easier removal and control the release of Guinea worm larvae.
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INSTRUCTING CHILDREN
Education is an important part of surveillance and case reduction. Here, flip charts are used in Wantugu, Ghana to show schoolchildren how Guinea worm is contracted and what they must do to prevent it. Education and low-technology measures to promote behavioral change are especially important because there is no medicine or vaccine to prevent Guinea worm disease.
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GUINEA WORM REVIEW
While at the containment center in Savelugu, Ghana, Sadia Mesuna and Fatawu Yakubu look at book about Guinea worm disease. Sadia learned that "you get Guinea worm from the water. If you drink it unfiltered, you get Guinea worm."
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INFORMATION SESSION
A local volunteer in South Sudan uses a flip chart to educate villagers on Guinea worm disease prevention. Harboring the vast majority of the world's remaining cases, South Sudan has become the last frontier on the difficult path to eradicating this debilitating parasitic disease.
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PIPE FILTERS
Displacement by war and nomadic lifestyles in South Sudan make pipe filters necessary. The pipe filters allows these people at the Kuse Dam, Terekeka County, South Sudan, to filter their water to avoid contracting Guinea worm disease
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GUINEA WORM POSTER
A sign in Taha, Ghana warns those with Guinea worm disease not to enter the water. The worms create painful blisters in the skin through which they slowly exit the body, people often seek relief from the pain by soaking it in water. However, when people with emerging worms bathe or step into sources of drinking water, the worm will release hundreds of thousands of eggs, or larvae into the water. Water fleas then eat the larvae, and people who drink unfiltered water from the the pond become infected - continuing the life cycle of the parasite
Taha, Ghana
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GUINEA WORM SPECIMEN
Guinea worms are thin, thread-like parasites. Inside the human body they can grow up to 3 feet long (one meter) before emerging through the skin.
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WOUND CARE
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital in Ghana as a Carter Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound. In May 2010, with Carter Center support, Ghana reported its last case of Guinea worm disease and announced it had stopped disease transmission a year later
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