"War and good health are incompatible."

[underpants]

Jimmy Carter vs. guinea worm: Sudan is last battle
(AP) – 4 days ago

Today the worm is even closer to being wiped out. Fewer than 1,700 cases have been found this year in only four countries — Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali and Sudan, where more than 95 percent of the cases are. The worm's near-eradication is thanks in large part to the efforts of Carter and his foundation.

"I'm still determined to outlive the last guinea worm," Carter told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The 86-year-old set that goal in the 1980s, when his center helped eliminate guinea worm from Pakistan and other Asian nations.

The Carter Center has battled the worm for 24 years through education and the distribution of strainers that purify drinking water. It has helped erase guinea worm in more than 20 countries, and it believes the worm will follow smallpox — which was wiped out in the late 1970s — as the next disease to be eradicated from the human population

Carter, whose center began working in Sudan in 1987, said he knows the people appreciates the work his team does.

"They know we're working for freedom and they know we're working for peace," Carter said. "And they know that we are there to end the plight of diseases that they should not still have."

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[applegrove]

1. Yup many of the diseases still present in the 'South' are not complicated to eradicate...there is

just so little in the way of resources directed at them.