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 ...

When in 1988 former US President Jimmy Carter toured Denchira and Elevanyo, two villages near Accra, Ghana, he noticed a young woman who appeared to be cradling a baby. Carter approached her for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The horrific Guinea worm once infected millions of people a year. Thanks to Jimmy Carter and others, the leg-infesting parasite is now on the brink of eradication. Reading time 3 minutes Former U.S.

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 ...

Former President Jimmy Carter holds up his book “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer” to third grade students at Byron Elementary in this Telegraph file photo. Jason Vorhees The Telegraph Editor’s note: ...