We do this work for the kids who will grow up not knowing Guinea worm disease.
An amazing team of people came together in Ghana to eradicate Guinea worm disease.
In comparison, Guinea worm disease is an obscure condition and has no vaccine.
While Guinea worm disease does not usually result in death, it is associated with incapacitating pain and secondary bacterial infections.
Guinea worm disease is usually non-fatal, but causes crippling pain and can immobilize its victims from being able to work, farm and function.
Former President Jimmy Carter negotiated a cease-fire in 1995 to allow health workers to conduct national Guinea worm disease surveillance, treating patients and tracking cases.
We will be able to tell our families that we were involved with Rotary when we celebrated the end of polio and Guinea worm disease from the world.
His Atlanta-based Carter Center has also established health programmes which have all but eradicated guinea-worm disease, and is successfully tackling river blindness.
Guinea worm is a non-fatal disease transmitted by water fleas living in stagnant water.
The next goal with Guinea worm is to stop transmission of the parasitic disease in southern Sudan, which reported 2, 690 cases in 2009.
Educating people about Guinea worm has other benefits besides preventing this specific disease, Hopkins said, such as helping people to think more carefully about the water they drink.
The disease gets into the body when people drink contaminated water, which contains water fleas that have ingested Guinea worm larvae.
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