dracunculiasis
- n a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
- WORMING AWAY The World Health Organization is confident that guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis, now confined to 17 countries--16 in Africa south of the Sahara--will be totally .