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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
Syringes are seen during the free, mass vaccination campaign against the disease in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Mexican National Institute of Social Security (ISSSTE), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
A woman receives the measles vaccine as part of a free, mass measles vaccination campaign in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute), ISSSTE (National Institute of Statistics and Census), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
A man receives the measles vaccine as part of a free, mass vaccination campaign against the disease in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute), ISSSTE (National Institute of Statistics and Census), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
A woman receives the measles vaccine as part of a free, mass measles vaccination campaign in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute), ISSSTE (National Institute of Statistics and Census), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
Syringes are seen during the free, mass vaccination campaign against the disease in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Mexican National Institute of Social Security (ISSSTE), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
Syringes are seen during the free, mass vaccination campaign against the disease in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Mexican National Institute of Social Security (ISSSTE), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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Measles Vaccination In Mexico City
A man receives the measles vaccine as part of a free, mass vaccination campaign against the disease in the parking lot of the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 19, 2025. This vaccination campaign targets the population between six months and 49 years old. This campaign results from an alliance between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute), ISSSTE (National Institute of Statistics and Census), PEMEX personnel, and UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) to eradicate measles, a viral disease that the World Health Organization considers one of the leading causes of infant death worldwide. (Photo by Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto) -
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NEWS - Jakarta: Mückenspray gegen Dengue-Fieber
An employee of the Health Ministry sprays anti-mosquito fog in an attempt to control dengue fever at a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 26, 20016. Fogging is done in areas considered vulnerable larvae of aedes aegypti to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito main source of transmission of the disease. *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Local Caption *** 18972011
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NEWS - Jakarta: Mückenspray gegen Dengue-Fieber
An employee of the Health Ministry sprays anti-mosquito fog in an attempt to control dengue fever at a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 26, 20016. Fogging is done in areas considered vulnerable larvae of aedes aegypti to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito main source of transmission of the disease. *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Local Caption *** 18972010
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NEWS - Jakarta: Mückenspray gegen Dengue-Fieber
An employee of the Health Ministry sprays anti-mosquito fog in an attempt to control dengue fever at a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 26, 20016. Fogging is done in areas considered vulnerable larvae of aedes aegypti to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito main source of transmission of the disease. *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Local Caption *** 18972006
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NEWS - Jakarta: Mückenspray gegen Dengue-Fieber
An employee of the Health Ministry sprays anti-mosquito fog in an attempt to control dengue fever at a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 26, 20016. Fogging is done in areas considered vulnerable larvae of aedes aegypti to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito main source of transmission of the disease. *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Local Caption *** 18972014
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NEWS - Jakarta: Mückenspray gegen Dengue-Fieber
An employee of the Health Ministry sprays anti-mosquito fog in an attempt to control dengue fever at a neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 26, 20016. Fogging is done in areas considered vulnerable larvae of aedes aegypti to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito main source of transmission of the disease. *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Local Caption *** 18972016
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Women carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
People fill containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A boy fills a barrel with water to be carried with his donkey-pulled cart at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Using donkey-pulled carts to carry them away, people fill large barrels with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
People gather to fetch water from a pond at Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
People gather to fetch water from a pond at Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A boy ties a plastic container full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Boys tie plastic containers full of water to the back of their bicycles as they prepare to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Boys fill plastic containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A boy fills a large barrel sitting on a wheelcart with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Saturday, March 10, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A boy ties plastic containers full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A woman stands on stones while she rests from filling buckets of water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A woman helps another lift a bucket of water on top of her head at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Boys fill a barrel with water to be carried with their donkey-pulled cart at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Boys fill a barrel with water to be carried with their donkey-pulled cart at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
Mesh filters use to prevent guinea worm lay on the ground while two boys drive the donkey-pulled cart they use to carry large barrels of water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Ghana Guinea Worm
A boy sets up a mesh filter on top a large barrel before filling it with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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Women fill metal containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday, March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
A parasite transmitted through drinking water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body a year after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 3 feet, it can only be pulled out an inch or two every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. It can take up to two months to completely remove a worm from the victim's body. The disease is usually not fatal, but a worm breaking inside the body can cause a secondary infection which, in the world's poorest regions, can often lead to death. While fatalities are uncommon, the parasite is debilitating, preventing farmers from working the fields, children from going to school. According to the Carter Center, rice farmers in southeastern Nigeria lost $20 million USD in one year because of outbreaks of Guinea worm disease.
Despite a widespread eradication, Ghana still has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan. In northern Ghana, 65 percent of the cases are found in children, who are often the ones in charge of fetching water, and sometimes lack the discipline to refrain from drinking straight from ponds or rivers. Victims often immerse their limbs in water to relieve the burning pain caused by an emerging worm - and contaminate an entire body of water. (FOTO: DUKAS/WORLDPICTURENEWS)
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