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Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero

• twoknights 2y ago
  Hoping that humanity can slowly overcome larger biological threats in the near future.
• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  "I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die," Carter said at a press conference in 2015. "I'd like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 cases. We started out with 3.6 million cases." https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358366/jimmy-carter-took-on-the-awful-guinea-worm-when-no-one-else-would-and-he-triumph https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358...
• hulitu 2y ago
  > Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero Maybe the known cases . /s
  • gus_massa 2y ago
    Sadly it's easy to detect... Anyway, I remember that a few year ago they detected that in very rare occasions the same worm infects also monkeys and dog and other animals. (These kind of worms are very specialized, so they don't infect a any random thing that moves.) So it may be harder to eradicate than previously though, but it still looks possible. Fingers crossed.