Over the course of his life, Jimmy Carter has almost brought an end to a destructive parasite that has plagued humans for thousands of years.
In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer – metastatic melanoma – had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own disease. Rather, he used the international attention to talk about an illness he did not have. Carter almost seemed more concerned about the health of people who did not have access to safe drinking water and were sick with a neglected tropical disease called Guinea worm.
The worm may come out in a few days, but it often takes weeks weeks to fully emerge, and the person removing it needs to be careful that it doesn’t break and cause additional infection. The disease is disruptive and is a significant financial burden, as people are unable to work while the worm emerges. And because there’s no immunity from the parasite, they can catch it more than once.
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