Global eradication of guinea worm disease: Toward a newer milestone
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| December 2014 | 1207 in 1995. To achieve eradication, a country should be free of indigenous cases for three consecutive years. Precertification stage will be reached after completion of one complete year free of indigenous case of Guinea worm disease (one incubation period for D. medinensis). An indigenous case is defined as infection occurring in a person exhibiting a skin lesion or lesions with emergence of one or more Guinea worms in a person who had no history of travel outside his or her residential locality during the preceding year.[4]
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