With 10 cases in 2025, Guinea worm could be the second disease ever eradicated. Here is what makes disease eradication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jar containing Guinea worms is shown in Atlanta, where Carter Center volunteers helped assemble medical kits to fight Guinea ...

Jimmy Carter took great pride in pointing out that the United States didn’t start any new wars during his term as president. But after he left office, he launched a war against “neglected” diseases — ...

Just 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, and a major step towards eradication. The Carter Center, a United States non-profit leading the ...

JARWENG, South Sudan — 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 ...

Former president Jimmy Carter was touring villages in Ghana during the late 1980s when he first encountered people with Guinea worm disease. This tropical disease involves an infection with parasitic ...

As long as we (in the US) can brand the Guinea worms as illegal immigrants coming to destroy our way of life, in a way that MAGA will understand, we'll be okay there. But, since the worms are the ...

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 ...