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

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae ...

In 1986, international health experts decided to eliminate the Guinea worm disease. The campaign was led by the Carter Center ...

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

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

A 14-centimeter-long worm was removed from a patient’s eye at Thanh Hoa General Hospital, Thanh Hoa Province, north-central Vietnam. Photo: Thanh Hoa General Hospital Surgeons at Thanh Hoa General ...

An experiment reveals that a bio-solution to humans’ microplastics mess is likely to fall short, but could inspire other ways to attack the problem.

Worm burden can have a significant impact on flock productivity – and while chemical and management solutions to reduce the impact of worms within the flock are effective measures, producers are ...

2008. [Photo: Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty Images] “He could not believe in the 1980s that people still had 3-foot-long worms coming out of them,” Callahan says. Carter’s Guinea worm ...