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Old 01-04-2015, 01:03 AM   #6
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Default Worms Coming Out of Skin


In the 1980s, India had a witnessed torturous disease known as the dracunculiasis caused by guinea worm. Estimated 40,000 Indians suffered this disease. This disease is caused by consumption of water contaminated by guinea worm larvae. The worm has an incubation period of one year. The female worm can grow up to 2-3 feet in length and moves towards the extremities causing an intense burning sensation. One year after being infected, the worm creates a blister in the skin of feet or knees. The blister ruptures within 72 hours exposing one end of the worm. The worm takes can take anywhere from hours to months to come out of the body. In 1983, India launched the world’s first National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme and by 2000 India was certified guinea worm free by WHO. It can easily be solved by either drinking boiled water or fine filtering it.
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