Guinea Worm By : O'Mariyah Tucker

Guinea Worm name and Disease Which causes the disease Dracunculiasis a parasitic infection occurring in parts of Africa without access to safe water. Its scientific name is Dracunculus medinensis The common name for the Guinea Worm is Guinea Worm  Guinea Worm name and Disease

Definitive hosts of Guinea Worm Humans are the main definitive hosts of the Guinea Worm , infecting 1,000 people per year.

Symptoms of Guinea Worm Diarrhea Vomiting Nausea Hives Blisters Fevers Although you get symptoms they don’t come till a year later.

Ways Guinea is contracted & the Vectors In order to contract this parasitic Infection you have to be drinking Infected waters or food , mostly in Africa because they don’t have access to safe waters. Vectors of Guinea Worms are the copepod species as well as cyclopoiods, that swim around in the lakes and ponds that people drink out of or stand or swim in.

How is it diagnosed and ways to treat yourself The Guinea Worm is normally self diagnosed aren’t really any test to determine if you have it or not. WAYS TO TREAT Use tweezers to pull the worm out day by day Wound dressing – covering the wound so that it doesn’t get any outside germs Also seeing infection specialists Drinking water through pipes

Ways organisms can prevent infection Always filter drinking water from unsafe sources, using a cloth filter or a pipe filter, to remove the copepods that carry the worm Provide communities with new safe sources of drinking water and repair broken safe water sources Educate villagers to cook their fish well, to bury fish entrails left over from fish processing

Life cycle of the GuineaWorm

Where most Guinea worm infections are

Interesting facts If you break the worm in the process of pulling it out it can cause extreme damage and more burning and blisters. In the contamination season there is larvicide temephos released into the ponds and lakes that kills water fleas.

Corny pick up line 😁 Come over for dinner I would be very flea to have you.