Fact sheets

Surveillance and mapping: Locating endemic and at-risk communities; promptly detecting and reporting human or animal infections; and confirming infections in a laboratory.
Safe water access: Drilling protected wells or boreholes, promoting the use of cloth or pipe filters in the absence of safe drinking water, and discouraging contact with contaminated sources when worms emerge.
Vector control: Regularly applying temephos (Abate&reg;) to stagnant water to kill infected water fleas.
Community education: Highlighting the importance of early case detection and reporting, alongside preventing animals from contaminating water, and proper management of aquatic animals&rsquo; waste.
Case containment: Immediately isolating infected individuals or animals, providing wound care, and proactive tethering of domestic dogs and cats.
Reporting and rewards: Maintaining high-level surveillance, incentivizing prompt case reporting, and consistently sharing data with national and global authorities.

PAHO/WHO / Ary Rogerio Si
A technologist works in the transfer of mRNA vaccines technology with the PAHO Regional Platform to promote the production of COVID-19 vaccines.