Late former President Jimmy Carter had the goal of ending guinea worm disease for 38 years. Now, his goal is almost at the finish line.

The 14 reported cases in 2024 aligns with some of the lowest annual totals of human cases ever reported, following 14 cases ...

The country previously demonstrated its leadership in public health, by eliminating Guinea-worm disease in 2013. Today, it takes another historic step forward.” Globally, 54 countries have eliminated ...

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Known as water bears, they can endure extreme environments, including anoxic conditions. This nematode worm can survive in low-oxygen environments by switching its metabolism. Found in Antarctica, ...

Diseases like lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, river blindness, schistosomiasis … and a disease caused by a nasty little bug called a Guinea worm. Guinea worms are spread through contaminated drinking ...

It was Jimmy Carter’s express wish that the last guinea worm, a parasite that causes debilitating illness and often lifelong physical incapacity would pass from the Earth before he did.

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program in 1986, the disease was endemic in 20 African and Asian countries, with ...

He has died aged 100. Even with no drug or vaccine, eradication of Guinea worm is in sight The Carters’ work was exemplified by their dedication to the eradication of Guinea-worm disease ...

Medically we should remember that his Carter Center has been the force behind a worldwide movement to eradicate one of the medical scourges of many tropical areas since ancient times: guinea worm ...

In May 2010, Ghana reported its last case of Guinea worm disease and announced it had stopped transmission a year later. The Carter Center / L. Gubb About a year after Jimmy Carter left the White ...