Sentences with phrase «painful guinea worm»
Jimmy Carter's efforts against the horribly painful guinea worm parasitic disease have helped lower the number of cases from 3.5 million in 1986 to just 126 last year.
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Guinea worm, one of humanity's most painful and gruesome parasites, is on track to be eradicated — the first human infection to be wiped out since smallpox in 1980 (see «Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms»).