{"id":85052,"date":"2020-10-22T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:58:39","slug":"national-deworming-day-14-states-record-decline-in-worm-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-deworming-day-14-states-record-decline-in-worm-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"National Deworming Day: 14 States Record Decline In Worm Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Since the launch of the \u2018National Deworming Day\u2019 in 2015, 14 states have shown a reduction in worm infections prevalent among children while nine states showed a substantial decline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-deworming-dayndd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Deworming Day<\/a>(NDD): <\/strong>It is observed bi-annually since 2015 by the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>It is aimed at eradicating intestinal worms also known as Soil-Transmitted Helminths(STH) among children in the age group of 1-19 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What happens on Deworming Day? <\/strong>Children and adolescents aged 1-19 years are administered Albendazole tablets across government, government-aided schools, anganwadis, private schools and other educational institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Soil Transmitted Helminths(STH): <\/strong>It is a sub-group within the group of helminth infections.It is caused specifically by those helminths which are transmitted through soil contaminated with faecal matter and are therefore called soil-transmitted helminths.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Causes: <\/strong>The main species that infect people are the roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), the whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) and the hookworms (Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission: <\/strong>It is transmitted by eggs that are passed in the faeces of infected people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Since the launch of the \u2018National Deworming Day\u2019 in 2015, 14 states have shown a reduction in worm infections prevalent among children while nine states showed a substantial decline. &nbsp; Facts: National Deworming Day(NDD): It is observed bi-annually since 2015 by the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare. Aim: It is aimed at eradicating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-deworming-day-14-states-record-decline-in-worm-infection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Deworming Day: 14 States Record Decline In Worm Infection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2045],"class_list":["post-85052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-national-deworming-day","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704791440},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}