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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Carter Center from 3.5 million cases of Guinea Worm disease in '86 to 13 worldwide last year
Since 1986, The Carter Center has led the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, working closely with ministries of health and local communities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and many others.
Guinea worm disease could become the second human disease in history, after smallpox, to be eradicated. It would be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and the first disease to be eradicated without the use of a vaccine or medicine.
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In 1986, the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people a year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners including the countries themselves the incidence of Guinea worm has been reduced by more than 99.99 percent to 13 provisional* cases in 2022.
https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

riversedge
(74,187 posts)Beartracks
(13,665 posts)Amazing.
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Rhiannon12866
(227,687 posts)And he said it would be for eradicating Guinea Worm.
Maeve
(43,107 posts)You can, too. Do not speak praise of Jimmy.... Carry on his work. The Carter Center, Habitat for Humanity.... Give til it hurts you and helps others.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)The Guinea Worm Eradication Program is wiping out this ancient disease mainly through community-based interventions to educate and change behavior, such as teaching people to filter all drinking water and preventing transmission by keeping anyone with an emerging worm from entering water sources.