Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades ... Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with ...

Former president Jimmy Carter was touring villages in Ghana during the late 1980s when he first encountered people with Guinea worm disease. This tropical disease involves an infection with ...

guinea worm larvae. (Photo by Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty Images) This week, the world celebrated the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter. Among Carter’s many post-presidency ...

the Carter Center has returned to raise awareness about what Guinea worm looks like, distribute water filters and train people on how to use them. (AP Video: Sam Mednick) Former U.S. President Jimmy ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary data ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...

A jar containing Guinea worms is shown in Atlanta, where Carter Center volunteers helped assemble medical kits to fight Guinea worm disease, on July 28, 2004.

In 1986, international health experts decided to eliminate the Guinea worm disease. The campaign was led by the Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy Carter. A daily routine for women and ...

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four ... but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted ...

Former President Jimmy Carter holds a water pipe filter at an October 2011 news conference in London to discuss a campaign to eradicate the Guinea worm. Using the filter when collecting drinking ...

JARWENG, South Sudan — Noble Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four ... Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water ...

Jimmy Carter delivering a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm in 2016. © Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool via Getty Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is dead at ...