Posted on 01/13/2015 10:54:36 AM PST by blam
Kevin Loria
January 13, 2015
Humanity is close to eradicating a human disease from the face of the earth for the second time in history. (The first eradicated human disease was smallpox, which last infected someone in 1977.)
That's pretty incredible — but it's a project that has required close to three decades of work, and it isn't finished.
On Monday, former US President Jimmy Carter announced at the opening of "Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease," a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, that there were just 126 cases of Guinea worm disease left in the world.
In 1986, when the Carter Center began leading the effort to eradicate Guinea worm, there were approximately 3.5 million cases in 20 countries, including India, Pakistan, and Yemen, with the rest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Now, "we know everybody who has Guinea worm," Carter said at the exhibit opening. And healthcare workers have those 126 people carefully isolated, so they shouldn't be able to infect anyone else.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
By chance are you Italian?
I wish I could say I was sorry, but "From your mouth to God's ear".
I’m not buying it. The parasite is ingested from contaminated water and they aren’t eliminating the contaminated water.
Now if we could only eradicate that disease known as Jimmy Carter.
I'm Still Here!
Does PETA know about this species-ist attack on an innocent animal?
Is that a disease or infestation?
Smallpox is NOT eradicated. It still sits in the bio warfare labs .... waiting.
First they came for the Guinea Worm, but I did not speak out because I was not a Guinea Worm...
LOL!
“What kind of noise does a Guinea Worm make?”
“Dago Wop Wop Wop!”
I thought they were talking about islam
Smallpox has not been eradicated. At the very least, it is alive and well in a test tube somewhere within the confines of a secure US Gubmint facility.
There is a particularly nasty freeper who, by some unknown power, condemned me to hell for supporting vaccinations. I wonder what said freeper has to say about this. There are a lot of things the government screws up, but I don’t consider the elimination of Polio one of them.
From small pox to “guinea worm disease”?
That’s a bit of a step backward, isn’t it? I mean, isn’t there any more significant disease that we could take out for round 2?
I came here all excited, thinking they were talking about that mental disorder, liberalism...
disappointed. again.
Of course, US intelligence using polio workers as cover didn’t help matters any. Neither did bragging about it in public.
Great, insightful question - we all want to eradicate disease ‘for the good of mankind,’ but heaven help us all if we even suggest some vertebrate be left to die out so people don’t starve.
Maybe that’s the dividing line for the PETA folks. I certainly don’t hear them taking sides with mosquitoes or termites.
Just reading the headline my initial hope (too much too hope for) was they were talking about the festering poisonous terminal disease islam.
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