WHO advises blanket anti-worming care for children despite

摘要

The World Health Organization has strongly recommended the mass treatment of hundreds of millions of children to eliminate worm infections, while admitting that evidence does not prove that it will do any good. A Cochrane review published in 2015 by a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine found no evidence that eliminating intestinal worms by treating all children in an area where worms were endemic improved the children's average height, weight, or nutritional status. A Campbell review published in 2016 confirmed these findings.