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The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

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The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

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Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly ...

Guinea worm infections are caused by a parasitic ... working on diagnostic tests that could identify cases months before the parasite emerges and pursuing trials of a drug called Flubendazole ...

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still monitoring suspected cases of the Guinea worm disease after the country was declared free of the infection. Posters offer a cash reward ...

Specific transcripts (in green and magenta) being used to identify different stem cell populations. (Leonie Adelmann) The team used two advanced genetic analysis techniques – single-cell RNA ...