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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.
Anthelmintic medication is also used in mass deworming campaigns of school-aged children in many developing countries. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Anthelmintics are also used for mass deworming of livestock. The drugs of choice for soil-transmitted helminths are mebendazole and albendazole ; [ 4 ] for schistosomiasis and tapeworms it is praziquantel .
[50] [51] Deworming programs can improve school attendance by 25 percent. [52] Although deworming improves the health of an individual, outcomes from mass deworming campaigns, such as reduced deaths or increases in cognitive ability, nutritional benefits, physical growth, and performance, are uncertain or not apparent. [53] [54] [55] [56]
Ancylostoma duodenale is a species of the roundworm genus Ancylostoma.It is a parasitic nematode worm and commonly known as the Old World hookworm. It lives in the small intestine especially the jejunum [citation needed] of definitive hosts, generally humans, [2]: 307–308 [3] where it is able to mate and mature.
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
Doctors have long urged people ages 50 and older to get a shot to protect against bacterial pneumonia. ... The shots were previously only recommended for adults 65 and older, and for children 5 ...
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Worming may refer to: Deworming, the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animal to rid them of internal parasites, including helminths;