Question: A 4th year medical student from the UofU traveled to Northern Ghana during an international rotation to Accra. He was fortunate enough to see a patient with Dracunculus medinensis in which they were extracting a worm from his leg onto a pencil. This parasite is being eradicated from the world. Which of the following is least likely to help rid the world of Dracunculus medinensis?
A. Boiling surface water before drinking it
B. Using a coffee filter or shirt to filter out copepods before drinking surface water
C. Treating of sewage before it enters fresh surface water
D. Preventing persons suspected of having Dracunculus from wading in the drinking water
E. Treating ponds used for drinking water with insecticide.