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Vietnam records first case of Dracunculus worm infection
By Ken Downey Jr.
April 21, 2021
Researchers reported the first known case of human Dracunculus worm infection in Vietnam. The case was caused by an unknown species of worm that was determined not to be the species that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.
Dracunculiasis is caused by the female Dracunculus medinensis worm, which was definitively ruled out as the cause of the Vietnam case, which occurred in a 23-year-old man and was detected by the Vietnamese public health surveillance system last July...
Vietnam records first case of Dracunculus worm infection
By Ken Downey Jr.
April 21, 2021
Researchers reported the first known case of human Dracunculus worm infection in Vietnam. The case was caused by an unknown species of worm that was determined not to be the species that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.
Dracunculiasis is caused by the female Dracunculus medinensis worm, which was definitively ruled out as the cause of the Vietnam case, which occurred in a 23-year-old man and was detected by the Vietnamese public health surveillance system last July...