JARWENG, South Sudan — Noble Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ...

Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

Even after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Carter remained focused: “I’d like the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” he told reporters in 2015.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, worms show no genetic damage despite living in highly radioactive soil, and free-ranging ...

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.

Infected people and dogs had to be prevented from tainting water sources. The goal was to break the worm’s life cycle — and therefore eliminate the parasite itself — in each endemic ...

Infected people and dogs had to be prevented from tainting water sources. The goal was to break the worm's life cycle -- and therefore eliminate the parasite itself -- in each endemic community ...

I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for ...

Guinea worm disease was first detected in dogs in 2012, forcing a shift in strategy. “Infection in dogs and cats in these last countries makes it harder to get there by 2030,” Tappero said.

Dog owners across Angus and Perthshire are being urged to lend a hand in an important research project aimed at better understanding the prevalence of worms in local dogs. Thrums Vets, Scotland’s ...

A woman from China began to feel a strong itch in her eyes. As she scratched it, a live worm fell out. This was a horrifying ...