Jimmy Carter Fought To End Guinea Worm Infection
In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...
MM&M1 天
Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
If someone with Guinea worm has contact with water the worm may release tens of thousands of baby worms, contaminating the whole body of water.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1 天
Jimmy Carter Worked to Eradicate the Vicious Guinea Worm Parasite, Slashing Cases by the ...
The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...
Scientific American12 天
Jimmy Carter, Who Has Died at Age 100, Spared Millions of People from Guinea Worm
Former president Jimmy Carter’s charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one ...
Jimmy Carter’s Biggest Victory Was in the Worm-Killing Business
The horrific Guinea worm once infected millions of people a year. Thanks to Jimmy Carter and others, the leg-infesting ...
WRVO11 天
Carter took on the Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
On a 2007 visit to Savelugu Hospital in Ghana, President Jimmy Carter asks a group of children if they've had Guinea worm. A ...
Yahoo12 天
Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed
Guinea worms are spread through contaminated drinking water and eating undercooked fish. The female worms, which can be up to 3 feet long once mature, cause incredibly painful, open blisters ...
health.wusf.usf.edu11 天
How Jimmy Carter helped bring Guinea worm infections from 3.5 million to 14 per year
President Carter helped lead a global health effort to eradicate the Guinea worm, a painful parasite which once infected more than 3 million people a year. Cases now number about a dozen a year.