dracunculiasis

1. UNICEF dracunculiasis eradication programme technical support team;
   儿童基金会根除麦地那龙线虫病方案技术支助工作队；
2. Dracunculiasis, also called guinea worm disease, will be the first disease eradicated not by a vaccine, but by health education and behaviour change;
   麦地那龙线虫病又称作几内亚线虫病，将成为首个不用疫苗，而是通过健康教育和行为改变得以消灭的疾病；
3. African Regional Conference on Dracunculiasis
   麦地那龙线虫病非洲区域会议
4. The condition is known as dracunculiasis or guinea-worm disease.
   该病症称为麦地那龙线虫病。
5. To be declared free of dracunculiasis, a country needs to have reported zero transmission and afterwards maintained active surveillance for at least three years.
   要被宣布为无麦地那龙线虫病状态，国家需要具备零病例传播报告，并在此之后的至少三年内保持积极监测。
6. Dracunculiasis is rarely fatal but infected people become non-functional for months.
   麦地那龙线虫病极少致命，但是感染者数月不能工作。
7. Collaborating Centre for Training, Research and Eradication of Dracunculiasis
   麦地拉龙线虫病训练、研究和根除合作中心
8. Dracunculiasis ( more commonly known as guinea-worm disease) is a crippling parasitic disease caused by Dracunculus medinensis, a long thread-like worm.
   麦地那龙线虫病（又常常称为几内亚蠕虫病），是一种由麦地那龙线虫这种长型丝状的蠕虫引起的致残性寄生虫病。
9. Dracunculiasis is the second disease which is approaching eradication ( the first being smallpox) and it occurs only after people drink contaminated water.
   麦地那龙线虫病是即将被消灭的第二种疾病（第一种疾病是天花），人们一旦饮用了受污染的水后就会引发这种疾病。
10. This was the first human case of dracunculiasis acquired in China. 31 dogs were examined in September 1998 and no animals were found to be in-fected with this nematode.
    这是我国首次发现麦地那龙线虫感染人体病例。而控制养犬后调查换代家犬31只未见感染，人体病例亦不再出现。

noun

1. 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

   Synonym:    Guinea worm diseaseGuinea worm