Dracunculiasis, also called guinea worm disease (GWD), is an infection by the guinea worm.

Guinea worm disease has been known since ancient times.

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm.

Many parasites are worms hookworm (800 million people infected), roundworm (1.5 billion), schistosomes (200 million), and the worm that causes Elephantiasis (150 million).

The first well known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems.

It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Dambudzo Marechera's image and his poem THE BAR STOOL EDIBLE WORM. Image posted on his Facebook page.

I am against everything, Marechera declared in The Bar Stool Edible Worm, one of his most popular poems

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

The pork tapeworm is particularly common in Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is one of the longest known animals, with specimens up to long and up to wide being reported.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

One example is the tobacco hornworm, which concentrates nicotine to a toxic level in its body as it consumes tobacco plants.

Osteoporosis

African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.

Testing Times for Alzheimer s

She's suffering from an illness.

Sami was struck down by a mystery illness.

No Diseases for Old Men

The Lingering Shadow of Mad Cow Disease

Why Mexico is Sick

One species of Rickettsia causes typhus, while another causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

This is an imperative, because the AIDS epidemic is a long term one it will not somehow disappear one fine day.

And because I have always been known to be a bookworm, I tried to transfer this love of reading and learning to my daughter.

It's a terrible disease. It's fatal.

He is concerned about his father's illness.

13. Tuberculosis identification and treatment

Consider lung cancer.

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It is endemic to Ecuador.

Pneumonia is a common illness affecting approximately 450 million people a year and occurring in all parts of the world.

Kawasaki disease is predominantly a disease of young children, with 80 of patients younger than five years of age.

That's what spreads HIV.

Cancer is a great enemy of humanity.

Sami is being treated for mental illness.

My plans changed, however, when my father got ill.

The silk worm does a remarkable thing it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar.

And the other thing is that people are simply not as scared of HIV as they were of AIDS, and rightly so.

Because scrapie had never been definitively linked to human disease, they assumed that infected cows were also innocuous.

This is preventable disease. Waste of life.

Layla had an undiagnosed mental illness.