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Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero

by jseliger on 7/24/24, 3:00 PM with 4 comments

• by toomuchtodo on 7/24/24, 11:39 PM

  "I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die," Carter said at a press conference in 2015. "I'd like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 cases. We started out with 3.6 million cases."

  https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358...

• by twoknights on 7/24/24, 5:27 PM

  Hoping that humanity can slowly overcome larger biological threats in the near future.

• by hulitu on 7/25/24, 8:47 PM

  > Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero

  Maybe the known cases . /s