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Hookworm's neglected status partly reflects its concentration among the world's poorest 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a day.
Therefore, the disease attributed to hookworm is silent blood loss leading to iron deficiency anemia and protein malnutrition.
In all regions, there is a striking relationship between hookworm prevalence and low socioeconomic status (Figure 2) [4].
Today, new international efforts to control the morbidity of hookworm and other soil-transmitted helminth infections are in progress (www.who.int/wormcontrol).
Because of its high transmission potential, hookworm has proven to be extremely difficult to eliminate or eradicate in areas of poverty and poor sanitation [19].