WHO's 2007 global plan¹ targeted the eradication of guinea-worm disease by 2015. This objective was not met and the culprits have, apparently, been identified. In addition to the political instability that prevails in many areas of Africa, which prevents the applicability of control strategies for disease control, dogs have been considered the most serious obstacle to the eradication because of the number of infected dogs that reside in Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali.² As a result, WHO has reconsidered the objectives set out in the 2007 global plan, delaying the eradication of guinea-worm disease to 2018 for Mali and South Sudan, to 2019 for Ethiopia, and to 2020 for Chad.

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世卫组织将消灭豚鼠疾病的时间推迟到2020年：狗是唯一的罪魁祸首吗？

世卫组织2007年全球计划^1的目标是到2015年消灭豚鼠病。这一目标未能实现，显然已经查明了罪魁祸首。除了在非洲许多地区普遍存在的政治动荡之外，这妨碍了疾病控制策略的适用性，由于埃塞俄比亚乍得的受感染狗数量众多，狗被认为是根除疾病的最严重障碍，和马里。²结果，世卫组织重新考虑了2007年全球计划中确定的目标，将消灭豚鼠疾病的时间推迟到马里和南苏丹，到2018年，到埃塞俄比亚，到2019年，到乍得，到2020年。