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Jan 24, 2023 · ATLANTA (Tuesday, January 24, 2023) — Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022, pushing the disease closer to eradication, The Carter Center announced Tuesday. The provisional figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported.
Feb 27, 2023 · ATLANTA — Just a few hours before President Carter underwent his first radiation treatment for brain cancer, he spoke of his hope, in the time he had left, to purge the world of a parasitic...
No medicine cures Guinea worm disease; no vaccine prevents it. Eradication hinges on giving people the knowledge, skills, and resources to change their behavior. (Photo: The Carter Center/ L. Gubb)
Guinea Worm Eradication Program. The Carter Center leads the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, meaning the disease will no longer exist. Guinea worm disease is poised to become the second human disease in history to be eradicated, following smallpox.
Jun 14, 2023 · Carter helped rid Kenya of Guinea worm disease ( dracunculus medinensis ), a rarely fatal but gruesome condition caused by the parasitical Guinea worm, which can grow up to three feet long inside the body. The skin lesions the worm creates are so debilitating that infected people can miss school or work for up to two months.
Jan 26, 2022 · The Carter Center leads the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease. (The Carter Center) By Christopher Quinn. Jan 26, 2022. Adam Weiss saw his first case of Guinea...
WATCH LIVE: Major Guinea Worm Disease Announcement March 21 at The Carter Center - 28:01
