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Guinea Worm - A Neglected Tropical Disease That Is Prev

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Guinea Worm - A Neglected Tropical Disease That Is Prev

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Swiss company Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) leverages unique technologies to improve public health across the globe. Founded by Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, the company develops innovative products like the portable water filter LifeStraw to prevent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as guinea worm.

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Swiss company Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) leverages unique technologies to improve public health across the globe. Founded by Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, the company develops innovative products like the portable water filter LifeStraw to prevent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as guinea worm.

Guinea worm is caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis (guinea worm). The parasite can measure 600-800 mm long and 2 mm wide. Its larvae roam contaminated waters looking for suitable host species where they can develop. They are usually ingested by water fleas living in the same environment. When a person consumes the contaminated water, gastric acid in his or her stomach dissolves the water flea, releasing the guinea worm.

The worm moves through a person's intestinal walls, ultimately seeking an escape through the foot. This movement causes severe pain and discomfort. After about a year of infection, the worm emerges through the foot, accompanied by painful oedema, blistering, and ulceration. Infection can incapacitate a person, and the parasite's movements through sensitive parts of the body can result in disability.

As of 2012, the disease was concentrated in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Chad, South Sudan, and Mali. However, its incidence has drastically been reduced thanks to global action and preventive measures being taken. Guinea worm can be prevented by avoiding contaminated water or using water filters that make this water safe. LifeStraw is one such filter.

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Guinea Worm - A Neglected Tropical Disease That Is Prev

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Swiss company Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) leverages unique technologies to improve public health across the globe. Founded by Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, the company develops innovative products like the portable water filter LifeStraw to prevent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as guinea worm. Guinea worm is caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis (guinea worm).

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Vestergaard Frandsen’s Innovative LifeStraw Family 2.0 Water Filter

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Vestergaard Frandsen’s Innovative LifeStraw Family 2.0 Water Filter

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss-headquartered company that offers technologies and knowhow that significantly improve public health. A focus of Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen and the Vestergaard team is on enabling clean water access for people in vulnerable developing countries, who number some 780 million worldwide.

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss-headquartered company that offers technologies and knowhow that significantly improve public health. A focus of Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen and the Vestergaard team is on enabling clean water access for people in vulnerable developing countries, who number some 780 million worldwide.

LifeStraw® water filters effectively convert water that is microbiologically contaminated into safe, clean drinking water. One of the top models is the next-generation LifeStraw® Family 2.0, which stands as a high-volume point-of-use solution. Durable and designed for tabletop use, the filter includes a large dirty water storage tank that incorporates a built-in safe storage container with a tap.

Ideal for household use and large enough to meet a full family's daily needs, the point-of-use disinfection and filtering equipment can result in a 45 percent diarrhea episode reduction. This is critical because it addresses cryptosporidium, a major factor in children's diarrheal illness that is linked with high mortality rates in children age 2 years and younger.

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Vestergaard Frandsen's Innovative LifeStraw Family 2.0

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss-headquartered company that offers technologies and knowhow that significantly improve public health. A focus of Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen and the Vestergaard team is on enabling clean water access for people in vulnerable developing countries, who number some 780 million worldwide.

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Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw Brings Clean Water to Kenyan Children

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Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw Brings Clean Water to Kenyan Children

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss company focused on health solutions that help the world’s most vulnerable people achieve comfort and security in their lives. One major Vestergaard Frandsen initiative has been an effort to ensure that one million children in Kenya have access to clean water.

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss company focused on health solutions that help the world's most vulnerable people achieve comfort and security in their lives. One major Vestergaard Frandsen initiative has been an effort to ensure that one million children in Kenya have access to clean water.

To accomplish this, the firm has been utilizing its innovative LifeStraw technology, which is popular on the retail market among campers who use the advanced water filter to decontaminate the water from virtually any source. In Western Kenya, large 50-liter LifeStraw Community water tanks are being distributed, with one provided for every 100 students.

This is critical in a country where approximately 40 percent of the 48 million people bathe in and drink from, water sources that are contaminated. These include rivers, ponds, and shallow boreholes. The result is often serious diseases such as typhoid, which causes high rates of child mortality.

Vestergaard and LifeStraw's program Follow the Liters initiative, provides clean drinking water a student for a full year, for each bottle sold. As reported in 2018, the progress of the project is being meticulously tracked, with teams in SUVs canvassing regions and often traveling great distances to deliver effective systems for generating clean water to remote rural schools.

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Vestergaard Frandsen's LifeStraw Brings Clean Water to Kenyan Children

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss company focused on health solutions that help the world's most vulnerable people achieve comfort and security in their lives. One major Vestergaard Frandsen initiative has been an effort to ensure that one million children in Kenya have access to clean water.