WOUND CARE

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Date

39121

Description

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.

Source

The Carter Center Office of Public Information, Health Programs
453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307
www.cartercenter.org

Citation

Credit: The Carter Center/L. Gubb, “WOUND CARE,” The Global Health Chronicles, accessed March 29, 2023, https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/4921.