Environmental health experts are gathering at the Carter Center in Atlanta this week to openly discuss the public health response to climate change, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled the event last month over what some said were fears of running afoul of the U.S. president.
The end of the Guinea worm disease appears imminent, with just 25 cases reported in 2016 and the number of affected countries dropping from four to three, according to the Carter Center. Mali reported no cases last year, leaving Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan as the last places in the world where the disease exists.
Uganda is edging closer to eliminating river blindness from the country. The government announced this week that it eliminated the…
The end of Guinea worm disease is near. Only 126 cases of the debilitating disease were reported in 2014, says…
I’ve written about this disease many times, seen people afflicted with it and years ago met a woman who was Nigeria’s last case. Jimmy Carter, whose philanthropy the Carter Center has sponsored Hopkins’ work, was recently talking about guinea worm with comedian Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. This painful, debilitating disease used to afflict millions of people every year.
Thanks to Hopkins and the Carter Center, it’s today down to few hundred cases remaining in the Sudan.
A flurry of reports lately have celebrated the potential end of one of the world’s most horrific human parasites, the…
After my first visit to Nigeria in 2001, when I saw more than my fair share of guinea worm infections,…
It’s hard for many of us, living inside the safe and comfortable bubble of existence offered by western civilization, to…