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Drenching Merino hoggets, Walcha, NSW U.S. soldiers treating animals with de-worming medication in Eswatini during VETCAP. Deworming (sometimes known as worming, drenching or dehelmintization) is the giving of an anthelmintic drug (a wormer, dewormer, or drench) to a human or animals to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm.
The Carter Foundation begins a campaign to eradicate Guinea worm. The incidence of guinea worm infection declines sharply, from an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 to 22 reported cases in 2015. [9] Dracunculiasis 1997: The World Health Organization declares South Korea "essentially worm-free". [6] Soil-transmitted helminthiasis: South Korea 2001
Madagascar: began a deworming programme in 2012 aiming to target all of the children in the country, more than 5 million in total. [39] Malawi: around 2 million children targeted in a deworming programme in 2011. [40] Mozambique: began a deworming programme in 2007 when nearly 500,000 children were treated, by 2014 around 5 million were ...
Worming may refer to: Deworming, the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animal to rid them of internal parasites, including helminths;
Helminthiasis, also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic worms, known as helminths. There are numerous species of these parasites , which are broadly classified into tapeworms , flukes , and roundworms .
Resistance to drenching chemicals occurs due to over-drenching, under-dosing, long-acting treatments, low worm population treatment and consistent use of the same drench. Causing drench resistance is a common occurrence on smaller isolated communities and is an issue for agricultural industries that relies on clean cattle to trade. [6]
Hookworm. Hookworm vaccine is a vaccine against hookworm. [1] No effective vaccine for the disease in humans has yet been developed. Hookworms, parasitic nematodes transmitted in soil, infect approximately 700 million humans, particularly in tropical regions of the world where endemic hookworms include Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.
An adult worm is normally 4 to 10 m in length, but can become very large; specimens over 22 m long are reported. Typical of cestodes, its body is flattened dorsoventrally and heavily segmented. It is entirely covered by a tegument. The body is white in colour and consists of three portions: scolex, neck, and strobila. The scolex has four ...