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Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease
New York Times ^ | 3/26/2006 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Posted on 03/25/2006 7:00:08 PM PST by Born Conservative

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To: lepton

I doubt even rabid PETA types would defend the rights of this worm. It's just too gross.


21 posted on 03/25/2006 11:06:00 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: Born Conservative

Some 'sacred' pond.


22 posted on 03/25/2006 11:19:09 PM PST by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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Nigerians were refusing innoculations because the Muslims in power were telling them that the shots contained the AIDS virus implanted by the CIA. Now they are experiening an outbreak of Polio. (Another irradicated disease)...they won't do any better with this disease. It is a worthwhile effort, but probably not the worst problem that faces Nigeria.


23 posted on 03/26/2006 3:29:44 AM PST by willyd
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To: neverdem

Ping


24 posted on 03/26/2006 5:54:16 PM PST by Born Conservative (Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
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To: Rembrandt
I though it might refer to charlie sheen's syphilis.
25 posted on 03/26/2006 6:03:43 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Born Conservative

I'm gonna have nightmares.


26 posted on 03/26/2006 6:08:48 PM PST by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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To: Zeroisanumber
I think I may drop over dead if I give President Carter any non-sarcastic credit, so instead I'll pretend that the disease was wiped out by our alien ant overlords.

I'm with you -- glad the disease is being wiped out, can't bring myself to credit the peanut man.

27 posted on 03/26/2006 9:04:55 PM PST by GOPJ (Peace happens when evil is vanquished -- Cal Thomas)
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To: sionnsar
if he has actually contributed significantly to this cause (as opposed to jumping out in front of others' work)

http://www.ndc-nihfw.org/html/Programmes/GuineaWormEradicationProgramme.htm

India is the first country in the world to establish the National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme in 1983-84 as a centrally sponsored scheme on 50-50 sharing between Centre and States with the objective of eradicating guinea worm disease from the country. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi worked as the nodal agency for planning, coordination, guidance and evaluation of NGWEP in the country.
 
28 posted on 03/27/2006 5:14:02 AM PST by syriacus (MSM in Iraq say reporting "Good News" is dangerous. Do they think reporting car bombings is safer?)
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Sorry...link is at GUINEA WORM ERADICATION PROGRAMME (GWEP)

It seems this program in India existed a few years before Carter's program, though it is not an international program. The program in India seems to have been successful

In the Meeting of WHO in February 2000 ... India has been certified for the elimination of Guinea Worm Disease and on 15th February 2001 declared India as “Guinea Worm Disease Free”.

29 posted on 03/27/2006 5:18:50 AM PST by syriacus (MSM in Iraq say reporting "Good News" is dangerous. Do they think reporting car bombings is safer?)
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Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) and the Eradication Initiative

Carter was convinced to take up the challenge by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Much of the credit for that achievement goes to members and former members of the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who through an advocacy campaign beginning in 1980 and sustained over more than a decade (79, 80, 82, 83) succeeded in convincing former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Board, the 1989 African Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the 1990 World Summit for Children to take up the challenge. .


30 posted on 03/27/2006 5:30:38 AM PST by syriacus (MSM in Iraq say reporting "Good News" is dangerous. Do they think reporting car bombings is safer?)
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