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Former US President Jimmy Carter looks on as herder Garbino Kenyi is treated for Guinea worm in South Sudan.

Jimmy Carter’s global fight against Guinea worm takes him to South Sudan

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A global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease is tantalizingly close to success. The parasitic infection, caused by a worm that can grow three feet long before it emerges from a patient’s body, now affects just a few thousand people per year. Almost all of the remaining cases are in Southern Sudan. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who has helped lead the campaign, went there in February. The World’s David Baron was there too.

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