Guinea worm disease
noun
variants
or guinea worm disease
: dracunculiasis
Guinea worm disease is a parasitic infection known as dracunculiasis that can be prevented by boiling or filtering drinking water through a finely woven cloth.—
Lawrence K. Altman
Lawrence K. AltmanAkoon, like other sufferers, contract guinea worm disease by drinking from stagnant water infested with a flea called cyclops, which swallows but cannot digest guinea worm larvae.—Tom Maliti
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Guinea worm disease
noun
variants
or guinea worm disease
: dracunculiasis
… near eradication of Guinea worm disease, a parasitic affliction that once infected two million people every year in Pakistan, India and 16 countries in Africa.—Jim Wooten, The New York Times Magazine
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