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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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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: ...