title: No transmission of dracunculiasis in Egypt for two centuries.
abstract: Despite occasional assertions to the contrary, no convincing evidence has been found of guinea-worm disease (dracunculiasis) being transmitted in humans in Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The confusion appears to be caused mainly by imported cases and the incidence of the disease in animals.
authors.affiliation: Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watts
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004320:Dracunculiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000635:transmission* / Q000662:veterinary; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans