An intensive training program led by Yale School of Public Health epidemiologists is helping to strengthen disease surveillance in Chad where there has been a
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A new study led by scientists from the University of Exeter in UK shows efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease are being thwarted by dogs eating fish that carry the parasite’s larvae. Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) causes temporary or permanent disability, debilitating pain and trauma in the poorest of the world’s population with no access to safe drinking water. The researchers tracked hundreds of dogs with GPS satellite tags to analyze their spatial ecology and uncovered their diets using forensic stable isotope analysis of dog whiskers, in several of the worst-affected villages along the River Chari in Chad.