Guinea worm Video

Dracunculiasis, more commonly known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is an infection caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The parasite is alternately known in English as "Guinea worm", "Medina worm", and finally "fiery serpent" which reflects the Latin root word Dracunculus meaning "little dragon".

@Presidentjh Most ...
@Presidentjh Most parasites in general I believe...

@Scrillls animals.. ...
@Scrillls animals..r vectors....whereas humans r primary host...therefore disease occur in humans n not cyclops.....

@billbinmei well it ...
@billbinmei well it can live a citys water system 2...so next time you take a bath ;) dont drink any water....

@livinglegend1187 ...
@livinglegend1187 Maybe when a f**king redneck douche bag like you is killed, the world's avergae IQ will rise by about 20 points.

@livinglegend1187 ...
@livinglegend1187 Now that's just mean, shouldn't we blame the blondes?

@Presidentjh I ...
@Presidentjh I agree. The day the negro is extinct is the day the world's average IQ shoots up about 10 points.

what stops animals ...
what stops animals from getting it? are they naturally immune?

I thought, well in ...
I thought, well in bio class if I remember correctly, if the worm is broken, the acids it releases kills the human if the acids get into the bloodstream, that's the reason why they pull it out slowly, and they wrap it so it doesn't go back inside, and they pull it out slowly and overtime so it does not snap. Often the people cannot walk or move so they do not risk the possibility of snapping the worm.

why is the ...
why is the Embedding disabled ?? i need it for my parasitology presentation:/

@tsotsoko Thank you ...
@tsotsoko Thank you for giving a different perspective on this subject. Many people seem to turn to the obvious answers of boiling water, etc., and I know that I atleast certainly did not think of any of the reasons why this would be a problem for people in villages affected by this parasite. I truly hope that this parasite is erradicated.

Yeah, They still ...
Yeah, They still have to make sure they filter all their drinking water with a cloth to filter out all the water fleas that contain the larvae. All it takes is for one person to get infected and it could spread like wildfire all over again. They tend to produce thousands of larva each time. This video states that the worms themselves cannot kill. This is wrong. Sometimes the worms wind up in the heart by accident, triggering death.

Costa Rica, if you ...
Costa Rica, if you visit, don't drink the f**king tape water mate D:

@xXGaticaXx were ...
@xXGaticaXx were the f**k do u live

It made it very ...
It made it very clear. You obviously didn't watch it all the way.

What this video ...
What this video fails to make clear is that unless you live in (or visit and stupidly drink unclean water) one of the 4 hotspots (4 countries in Africa) in which this disease is still endemic, you are pretty much guaranteed you won't contract guinea worm ever. It is the only human parasite that is believed possible to fully eradicate within the next several years (and without the use of vaccines).

I grew up in a ...
I grew up in a different place, we don't have these type of worm. But anyway, I can give you a little bit of knowledge. Boiling water needs woods for fire. And they are expensive. And a lot of NGO are active to protect the forest (nature) from extinction, making the price farther more expensive. Number 2, they don't believe that it's from the water. They would say it's a trick to make them buy things.

What the f**k.
What the f**k.

por k no puedo ...
por k no puedo bajar este video lo nesecito porfavor es urgente esta justo lo k nesecito para mostrar a mi profesor ayudeme

I agree with you. ...
I agree with you. Why not boil it and let it cool before drinking it. Maybe its so hot there they are desperately thirsty at the moment and cant wait to boil it and wait for it to cool. This is horrible...

I read that there's ...
I read that there's only 10,000 cases reported each year, almost all in Africa, man I can add this to the things that make me feel sorry for Africa.

I got parasites ...
I got parasites from the tap water in my town wtf, we have the dirtiest water in the country and mom hardly ever buys bottled water, and im constantly thirsty, so I gave in and drank that disgusting stuff and got Giardiasis a parasite found in FECAL MATTER oh lord it was disgusting and painful as hell, they paralize your intestine and everything in your stomach 'ferments' you start belching and it tastes like rotten eggs, then comes the vomiting, it's not normal vomit it feels like hot rocks

i feel so bad for ...
i feel so bad for kids in africa

why did he have to ...
why did he have to say thtat at the end? WHY?

clean water and ...
clean water and education would eradicate Dracunculus medinesis. it needs water and a copepod to survive. keep the blisters out of the water, keep the larvae away from copepods, no more guinea worm... The caduceus came from this though, thats interesting...

woh, dont say that ...
woh, dont say that ,, youl p**s of PETA

what happened 2 ...
what happened 2 boiling water?

Any source for that ...
Any source for that? Or just an assumption?

yuck!
yuck!

this and the botfly ...
this and the botfly need to exit stage left

That is terrible! ...
That is terrible! I'm glad that we're on the way to eradicating the bastard. That's one species that we want to go extinct.