chase guinea worm disease into the annals of history

摘要

Its project, the Southern Sudan guinea worm eradication programme, is an immense operation of 14000 people, made up of village volunteers and an army of experts.But another important player is the Carter Center, an Atlanta based foundation set up by the former US president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalyn, which underwrites the project with the help of donors and partners such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and WHO. The foundation took on the eradication of guinea worm disease as one of its goals in the 1980s after the Carters encountered a young Ghanaian woman with a worm emerging from her swollen breast. At that time about 3.5 million cases thrived in 20 African and Asian nations.