Over 96% of all cases are from the Northern Region, with only five of Ghana’s ten regions reporting indigenous cases of Guinea worm disease during 2007. Four of these regions—namely, Ashanti, Upper West, Volta, and Brong-Ahafo—are set to break transmission during 2008.
Four other regions, namely Greater Accra, Western, Eastern, and Upper East, have broken transmission but continue to report only imported cases, originating mostly from the Northern Region. The Central Region has not reported any indigenous cases.
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