Weekly epidemiological record
17 August 2012
No. 87 (33): 309-315
Progress towards eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas in 2011 : interruption of transmission in Guatemala and Mexico
Contains a report from the 21st IACO held in Bogota, Colombia, in November 2011. Data presented during IACO 2011 led to the conclusion that onchocerciasis transmission had been interrupted in the Southern Chiapas focus of Mexico and the Central focus of Guatemala, and that MDA could be stopped in these locations in 2012. These were the last foci in Mexico and Guatemala under treatment, and the 2 largest (in terms of population) transmission zones in the Americas. (WHO, 2012)
This report is provided in English and French.
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