Even after his passing, President Jimmy Carter’s legacy as a do-gooder continues to reach new milestones. The late president’s longtime goal of eradicating Guinea worm disease is now closer to being ...

“Guinea worm disease has no cure, no vaccination, basically the entire eradication effort is built on behavior change,” said Kelly Callahan, a public health worker who spent years fighting Guinea worm ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — The Carter Center is hailing a new record low in worldwide Guinea worm cases, with only 10 reported in 2025. The Carter Center has long worked to eradicate the disease, going back to Jimmy ...

File photo: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital as a Carter Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

The Carter Center says only 10 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2025. The nonprofit founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn has led the global eradication ...

President Jimmy Carter, the Carter Center and LifeStraw have waged a war against Guinea Worm disease since 1986. We're now closer than ever to completely eradicating an ancient disease from the planet ...

As world leaders mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter and remark on his political and policy legacy, doctors are remembering his efforts to prevent disease, and his legacy in furthering ...

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 ...