Une maladie née de l'homme: La dracunculose en milieu sahélien

A man-borne disease: Guinea-worm in the Sahel.- Recent enquiries on the disease in the pre-Saharan belt of West Africa show a degree of differentiation in local endemicity, resulting in a diversity of clinical aspects according to the endemicity rate. Children's infection and polyparasitosis become important only when the endemicity level is rather high.