True about Dracunculiasis except -: (A) No animal Reservoir, (B) Man is intermediate host, (C) India has eradicate the diease, (D) Limited to tropical and subtropical region
Answer is B. - drancunculiasis is caused by drancunculus medinensis. - temperature ourable is 25-30degC and will not develop below 19degC. Thus diseases is limited to tropical and subtropical regions. - India was declared free of guineaworm disease and the last case repoed was in July 1996. -reservoir of infection is infected person. Animal reservoir is may exist but not yet proved. - humans are definitive host and Cyclops are the intermediate host. Reference : Park's textbook of preventive and social medicine, 23rd edition, pg no :245 <\p>