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 ...

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.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the 1980s, 3.5 million human cases of Guinea worm were reported. In 2025, only 10 human cases were reported, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Carter Center's decades-long fight against an ancient parasite affecting some of the world's poorest may soon end in a victory. After leaving the White House, former President Jimmy Carter made ...

Next year was supposed to be the end of the line for Guinea worm. The epic, decades-long campaign against the parasite — which humans and animals can contract from drinking water and which, about a ...