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Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission

Dec. 30, 2024 20:49 PM EST

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink...