President Carter helped lead a global health effort to eradicate the Guinea worm, a painful parasite which once infected more than 3 million people a year. Cases now number about a dozen a year. It's ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (AP) – Guinea worm disease cases were cut to less than 600 in 2012, marking significant progress in eradicating the parasitic infection, former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday. The effort ...

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 parasitic ...

A daily routine for women and children in remote parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo is gathering water. Streams, ponds and rivers are the main sources of water for drinking, bathing and cooking ...

It's no small thing to eradicate a disease, but Jimmy Carter spent a lot of time after his presidency trying to do just that. For years, the Carter Center, his global health and human rights ...

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

Former President Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close to achieving that goal. Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, and his nonprofit, the Carter Center, led a ...