Re:Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @07:39PM
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"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."
Re:Latest Worldwide Guinea Worm Case Totals for 2024: Zero
by gus_massa on Saturday July 27, 2024 @11:08AM
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Sadly it's easy to detect...
Anyway, I remember that a few year ago they detected that in very rare occasions the same worm infects also monkeys and dog and other animals. (These kind of worms are very specialized, so they don't infect a any random thing that moves.) So it may be harder to eradicate than previously though, but it still looks possible. Fingers crossed.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/23/1158358...
Maybe the known cases . /s
Anyway, I remember that a few year ago they detected that in very rare occasions the same worm infects also monkeys and dog and other animals. (These kind of worms are very specialized, so they don't infect a any random thing that moves.) So it may be harder to eradicate than previously though, but it still looks possible. Fingers crossed.