6. WHO provides technical guidance, coordinates eradication activities, enforces surveillance in dracunculiasis-free areas and advocates for eradication.
7. Dracunculiasis (more commonly known as guinea-worm disease) is a crippling parasitic disease caused by Dracunculus medinensis, a long thread-like worm.
8. Dracunculiasis is the second disease which is approaching eradication (the first being smallpox) and it occurs only after people drink contaminated water.
9. 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。
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10. To be declared free of dracunculiasis, a country needs to have reported zero transmission and afterwards maintained active surveillance for at least three years.