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The End Of Guinea Worm Was Just Around the Corner. Not Anymore

Oct 04, 2019
The World Health Organization had hoped to eradicate the painful parasite by 2020. That deadline just got moved a decade into the future. And dogs are part of the problem.
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The white, threadlike Guinea worm emerges from an infected foot.

'Amazing' News About The Awful Guinea Worm

Mar 21, 2018
Despite an ongoing civil war, South Sudan has successfully stopped transmission of the horrific parasite. The milestone means the worm is circulating in only three countries.
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From left: Emmanuel Kwame lost his sight to river blindness as a young man in Ghana; a bed net keeps mosquitoes away from a mother and child in a Somalian hospital; extracting a guinea worm from an infected person.

Wins And Losses In Global Health In 2016

Dec 23, 2016
The editor of the New England Journal Of Medicine is a big Red Sox fan. And so he framed the year in global health in baseball terms.
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Why The World Isn't Close To Eradicating Guinea Worm

Aug 09, 2016
Health officials thought they were close to wiping out the parasite. It's been President Carter's dream for decades. But the dogs of Chad have turned out to be a major problem.
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Connor Dillon, a research intern at the Baylor College of Medicine, conducts tests as part of a worm vaccine project.

#NPRWormWeek: The Scientist Who's Waging A War On Worms

Aug 08, 2016
Scientist Peter Hotez has spent nearly 40 years trying to treat and eliminate the diseases that worms can cause. And he won't let the "ick" factor stop him.
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The national parasite collection includes specimens of animal tissue containing worms. Above: tissue (and roundworm) from a zebra imported from Africa for the Barnum and Bailey circus in 1911.

#NPRWormWeek: Worms Are Bottled Up In The Smithsonian's Crawl Space

Aug 07, 2016
Tapeworms, hookworms, leeches. Millions of specimens. This collection has it all — except legs.
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Former President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm at London's House of Lords on Feb. 3. The lecture title: "Final Days of the Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm Eradication."

Jimmy Carter May Soon Get His 90th Birthday Wish: No More Guinea Worm

Jun 06, 2016
The former president tells why it's taken nearly 30 years to bring the Guinea worm to near extinction — and what's next on his agenda.
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Medical worker Abaare Hussein extracts a Guinea worm from a child's leg in Savelugu Village in northern Ghana in 2007.

The Last Days Of Guinea Worm

Jun 06, 2016
The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.
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A long legacy in global health: Former President Jimmy Carter has worked to end neglected diseases since 1982. Here he sits with former South African President Nelson Mandela at a ceremony in Soweto, celebrating a new AIDS project in 2002.

What Jimmy Carter Did After His 'Involuntary Retirement'

Aug 20, 2015
The former president is now fighting cancer. For the past 30 years, he has fought to wipe out diseases that plague millions of people. The efforts have brought one parasite to the edge of eradication.
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An elderly Nigerian woman who suffers from river blindness is helped by a young girl.

Control, Eliminate, Eradicate A Disease: What's The Difference?

Jan 14, 2015
We've eradicated smallpox. But we can only hope to control malaria. A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History explains how disease fighters set and pursue their goals.
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On a 2007 visit to Savelugu Hospital in Ghana, President Jimmy Carter asks a group of children if they've had Guinea worm. A raised hand is a yes.

'Watch Out, Guinea Worm, Here Comes Jimmy Carter'

Jan 13, 2015
Those words were written on a poster that greeted the former president on a visit to Nigeria. His Carter Center has vowed to wipe out the nasty worm. And right now we're down to 126 cases.
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