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SuperNova said:
To be honest I can't comfortably pass judgement/offer a solution on that one because I'm not familiar with it. I'm reasonably well informed about Malaria, but I've never heard of the guniea worm. I don't know wich invironments it typically lives in (aside from Human bodys) and what it does. Or how you would go about planned extinction in it's case. I mean in the case of malaria the Idea is not to wipe out the parasite itself, but to remove one of the hosts from the reproduction cicle. Is there a similar thing with the gunea worm? Or is it passed human to human? I'd have to research this, and I'm frankly too lazy. :P If I assume that this worm and humans lived in a vacuum and nothing else but these two species are involved, it falls back on what I said about viruses and vaccination. If we find a way to protect ourselves from getting infected by the worm, and as consequence the worm goes extinct because it fails to adapt, thats evolution. (As an aside the thought of having fucking worms living inside me makes my skin crawl....*shudder*) Edit: Ok, had a quick look at the Wiki and it seems that, these are contracted by accidently drinking infected waterflee larvas. In that case my answer would be simple. Make sure suffcient infrastuckture is built to give the people accsess to clean water. Wich we should be doing anyways. |
That's how they're doing it already; giving people filters to drink through and treating water sources with larvacide to make it safe.
The only way the Guinea Worm can reproduce is through infecting a human body, so by protecting people from it, you're also dooming the worm to die out.
