Dragon worm disease

Dracunculiasis (dracontiasis), also known as guinea worm infection, is a parasitic disease caused by the adult parasites of guinea worms. Adults not only parasitize the deep connective tissue and subcutaneous tissue of the human body, they can also extend out of the body. In addition, it can be parasitic in or out of animals such as dogs, horses, cattle, wolves, leopards, marten, monkeys, baboons, fox silver fox raccoon mink, cats and other animals. The main clinical manifestations are chronic skin ulcers. In 1995, a female worm specimen was detected from the left abdominal wall abscess of a 12-year-old male child in rural Fuyang, Anhui. This is the first case of human infection with guinea worm in China.