Guinea worm disease
noun
variants
or guinea worm disease
: dracunculiasis
Guinea worm disease is a parasitic infection known as dracunculiasis that can be prevented by boiling or filtering drinking water through a finely woven cloth.—Lawrence K. Altman
Akoon, like other sufferers, contract guinea worm disease by drinking from stagnant water infested with a flea called cyclops, which swallows but cannot digest guinea worm larvae.—Tom Maliti
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