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Dracunculiasis: History, Applications & Events

Dracunculiasis, also called Guinea-worm disease, is a parasitic infection by the Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis). A person becomes infected by drinking water contaminated with Guinea-worm larvae that reside inside copepods (a type of small crustacean). Stomach acid digests the copepod and releases the Guinea worm larva, which penetrates the…

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Dracunculiasis topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications and Events as prominent areas in the source structure around Dracunculiasis.

Related topics
118
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
128
Extracted relationships
171
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
128

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 38 topics
History · 25 topics
Signs and symptoms · 15 topics
Non-human hosts · 14 topics
Diagnosis · 7 topics
Cause · 6 topics
Treatment · 5 topics
Eradication · 4 topics
Epidemiology · 2 topics
Prevention · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Causes
Ingesting Guinea worm–infected copepods, drinking contaminated water
Deaths
~1% of cases
Frequency
10–15 cases worldwide per year (2022–2025)
Other names
Guinea-worm disease · dracontiasis
Prevention
Preventing those infected from putting the wound in drinking water, treating contaminated water
Specialty
Infectious disease

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Cause

Signs and symptoms

Diagnosis

Prevention

Treatment

Epidemiology

History

Eradication

Non-human hosts

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Dracunculiasis connects Entity context

The extracted context around Dracunculiasis shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Dracunculiasis → Benin, Burkina Faso, By, Cameroon, Carter Center, CDC, Central African Republic, Chad, Control, Côte, Ethiopia, Following, Ghana, In, India, Ivoire, June, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania Another extracted example is Dracunculiasis → American, Americas, Animal, Animals, As, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Costa Rica, Domestic, Dracunculus, In, India, Infections, Italy, Madagascar, Other Dracunculus, Papua New Guinea. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Dracunculiasis

Top relations

related to Eradication · 35
Dracunculiasis → Benin, Burkina Faso, By, Cameroon, Carter Center, CDC, Central African Republic, Chad, Control, Côte, Ethiopia, Following, Ghana, In, India, Ivoire, June, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania
related to Non-human hosts · 26
Dracunculiasis → American, Americas, Animal, Animals, As, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Costa Rica, Domestic, Dracunculus, In, India, Infections, Italy, Madagascar, Other Dracunculus, Papua New Guinea
related to history · 25
Dracunculiasis → Agatharchides, Arabic, Asclepius, Avicenna, BCE, Diseases, Dracunculus, Ebers, Egyptologist Paul Ghalioungui, Friedrich Küchenmeister, Galen, Georg Hieronymous Velschius, Greco-Roman, Greek, Guinea, Hebrews, In, Old Testament, Persian, Plutarch's Symposiacon
related to Epidemiology · 14
Dracunculiasis → Additionally, Angola, Cameroon, Cases, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, One, South Sudan, Sudan, This, Three, Within, World Health Assembly
has treatment · 13
Dracunculiasis → As, CDC, Disease Control, Each, If, Instead, Once, Painkillers, Prevention, The US Centers, There, This, Treatment
related to External links · 11
Dracunculiasis → Carter Center, Carter CenterAnyak, Disease Eradication Program, Guinea, Guinea Worm, Guinea-worm, Kristof, Nicholas, Sudanese, The New York Times, World Health OrganizationGuinea Worm
related to Cause · 9
Dracunculiasis → About, Dracunculus, During, Humans, In, Once, Over, The, When
related to Diagnosis · 9
Dracunculiasis → Dead, Dracunculus, Guinea, Patients, PCR, Recent, The, This, X-ray
has prevention · 6
Dracunculiasis → Consequently, Nylon, Public, There, Water, Where
related to Outcomes · 6
Dracunculiasis → Around, Communities, Outbreaks, People, Some, When

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

worm water disease cases eradication medinensis larvae wound drinking worms copepods year three guinea infected blister affected transmission sudan female

Dracunculiasis relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 171 structured relationships around Dracunculiasis. Examples in this analysis include Dracunculiasis → Causes → Ingesting Guinea worm–infected copepods, drinking contaminated water and Dracunculiasis → Deaths → ~1% of cases. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
DracunculiasisCausesIngesting Guinea worm–infected copepods, drinking contaminated water1.00infobox
DracunculiasisDeaths~1% of cases1.00infobox
DracunculiasisFrequency10–15 cases worldwide per year (2022–2025)1.00infobox
DracunculiasisOther namesGuinea-worm disease1.00infobox
DracunculiasisOther namesdracontiasis1.00infobox
DracunculiasisPreventionPreventing those infected from putting the wound in drinking water, treating contaminated water1.00infobox
DracunculiasisSpecialtyInfectious disease1.00infobox
DracunculiasisSymptomsPainful blister that a long white worm crawls out of1.00infobox
DracunculiasisTreatmentSlowly extracting worm, supportive care1.00infobox
DracunculiasisUsual onsetOne year after exposure1.00infobox
Dracunculiasisis adisease of extreme poverty0.90text
Dracunculiasishas preventionThere0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Dracunculiasis bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Eradication, Transmission and Cases. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Dracunculiasis
    • Eradication
    • Transmission
    • Cases
    • Year
    • Endemic
    • Water
    • Worm
    • Drinking
    • Infected
    • Countries
    • Since
    • Sudan
  • dracunculiasis
    • Eradication
    • Transmission
    • Cases
    • Year
    • Endemic
    • Water
    • Worm
    • Drinking
    • Infected
    • Countries
    • Since
    • Sudan
  • guinea worm
    • Wound
    • Worm
    • Blister
    • Dracunculus
    • Emerges
    • Infection
    • Medinensis
    • Exit
    • Water
    • Eradication
    • Program
    • Pain
  • copepods
    • Larvae
    • Medinensis
    • Infected
    • Drinking
    • Water
    • Guinea
    • Worms
    • Cases
    • Efforts
    • Weeks
    • Per
    • Blister
  • disease of extreme poverty
    • Dracunculiasis
    • Medinensis
    • Guinea
    • Worm
    • Infected
    • Drinking
    • Eradication
    • Water
    • Around
    • Blister
    • Dracunculus
    • Program
  • effort to eradicate dracunculiasis
    • Eradication
    • Transmission
    • Cases
    • Year
    • Endemic
    • Water
    • Worm
    • Drinking
    • Infected
    • Countries
    • Since
    • Sudan
  • unique to this disease
    • Dracunculiasis
    • Medinensis
    • Guinea
    • Worm
    • Infected
    • Drinking
    • Eradication
    • Water
    • Around
    • Blister
    • Dracunculus
    • Program
  • centers for disease control and prevention
    • Dracunculiasis
    • Medinensis
    • Guinea
    • Worm
    • Infected
    • Drinking
    • Eradication
    • Water
    • Around
    • Blister
    • Dracunculus
    • Program

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Dracunculiasis, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Dracunculiasis with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
DracunculiasisOverview · splits 90 ⟂ 39
DracunculiasisHistory · splits 103 ⟂ 26
DracunculiasisSigns and symptoms · splits 113 ⟂ 16
DracunculiasisNon-human hosts · splits 114 ⟂ 15
DracunculiasisDiagnosis · splits 121 ⟂ 8
DracunculiasisCause · splits 122 ⟂ 7
DracunculiasisTreatment · splits 123 ⟂ 6
DracunculiasisEradication · splits 124 ⟂ 5
DracunculiasisPrevention · splits 126 ⟂ 3
DracunculiasisEpidemiology · splits 126 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Dracunculiasis

Nodes129
Edges128
Triples171
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015504
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Dracunculiasis to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Events, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Dracunculiasis · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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