Humanity has known dracunculiasis for millennia. Well-preserved specimens of Dracunculus medinensis were discovered in Egyptian mummies, while some researchers claim that the Old Testament's ...

Dracunculiasis, also referred to as Guinea worm disease, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by the Dracunculus medinensis roundworm.

The worms inside the man weren’t the Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis), a now-rare parasite on the brink of eradication, as originally thought. Instead, they were a related and unknown ...

The oldest reference to what we now call dracunculiasis is a 1550 B.C.E Egyptian text, the Ebers text, which documents the disease and a form of treatment. The scary-as-hell “little dragons ...

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 ...

It’s caused by a parasite called Dracunculus medinensis, which infects humans and animals when they drink unfiltered water contaminated with microscopic water fleas.

Its official name is Dracunculus medinensis. It’s commonly known the guinea worm. Measuring up to four feet long, the worms were lodged in the connective tissue inside the legs of the Tambura ...

First hints that the long-established version of Dracunculus medinensis's life cycle might not be strictly correct emerged in 2012, when Chad began signaling dracunculiasis infections in dogs ...

But the parasitic worm Dracunculus medinensis is no joke. In remote parts of Africa where clean drinking water is difficult to come by, the parasite was once a common ailment.