In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Jimmy Carter's legacy includes a major medical contribution: the eradication of guinea worm disease. Learn about this ancient ...

If someone with Guinea worm has contact with water the worm may release tens of thousands of baby worms, contaminating the whole body of water.

The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to ...

Jimmy Carter’s example — as a leader, a humanitarian, and a human — can guide us through these unclear times, writes WHO ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...

The Carter Presidential Center has helped the number of cases decrease from 3.5 million to 11, and Carter Center staff tell us they believe it will soon be eradicated.

Hattiesburg native, Don Denard said he didn't have to wait to hear those stories because he was with the president often at a ...