In the 1980s, UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy Carter. In June 2023, Mariam, a Sudanese refugee from the ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The Carter Center's decades-long fight against an ancient ...

In 2006, a contested region of southern Sudan that had been embroiled in a long civil war recorded more than 20,000 cases of Guinea worm disease, 80% of the world’s total. Last year, the now ...

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 ...

A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only 10 human cases reported worldwide in 2025, the Carter Center announced. If ...

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The villain of this new documentary is a worm — but not just any worm. "We have known monsters, all kinds of monsters," Waleed Eltayeb declares. "Then there's the dragon, this fiery serpent, this ...

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — 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 ...

A guinea worm extraction procedure on a child in Ghana. According to the WHO, Guinea worm disease is not usually fatal, but people suffering from it become “non-functional” for weeks and months.

Children collect daily family water needs from new boreholes, which supply filtered water free of guinea worm larvae. (Photo by Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty Images) This week, the world celebrated the ...

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 — ...

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 ...