Reported cases of guinea worm disease
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World Health Organization; Dracunculiasis Eradication Portal, World Health Organization
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For Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Senegal and Yemen the data is from: 1986-2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20220208133814/https://apps.who.int/dracunculiasis/dradata/html/report_Countries_i2.html 2018: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629130727/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/324786/WER9420-233-251.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2019: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629130619/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332086/WER9520-209-227-eng-fre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2020: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230226162934/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/341529/WER9621-173-194-eng-fre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2021: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230226163027/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/354576/WER9721-22-225-247-eng-fre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2022: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629124651/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/367924/WER9820-205-224.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y For all other countries we gathered data from the following sources: 1980-2020: https://www.who.int/teams/control-of-neglected-tropical-diseases/dracunculiasis/dracunculiasis-eradication-portal 2021: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230226163027/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/354576/WER9721-22-225-247-eng-fre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2022: Table 1a: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629124651/https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/367924/WER9820-205-224.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 2023: Table 1a: https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376790/WER9920-249-269.pdf?sequence=1 We calculate global totals as the sum of the number of reported cases in each country.
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World Health Organization (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Reported cases of guinea worm disease – WHO” [dataset]. World Health Organization, “Dracunculiasis eradication: global surveillance summary 2023” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-reported-guinea-worm-dracunculiasis-cases