Dracunculiasis is a painful parasitic disease caused by the Guinea worm. Where it once affected millions of people, after years of effort in 2024 there were only 15 cases. We hope that soon there will ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary data ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world's poorest people.Rarely fatal but searingly painful and ...

FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to ...