B Y : T INI P RAJAPATI.  What is this disease?  What causes it?  How do people get it?  Treatment/Prevention  Eradication efforts.

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B Y : T INI P RAJAPATI

 What is this disease?  What causes it?  How do people get it?  Treatment/Prevention  Eradication efforts

 Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600’s

◦ Grows and matures inside people

There is no cure.

 Boreholes or hand dug wells

 Filters larvae out

 Prevent people with emerging worms from entering ponds/wells used for drinking

 Hinders economy

"Ultimately, the work of The Carter Center is about helping people achieve better opportunities and watching hope take root where it languished before.“ —Jimmy Carter

 Will be the 3 rd infectious disease to be eradicated

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