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Hangout On Air: Jimmy Carter Releases 2012 Provisional Guinea Worm Numbers

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Carter Center Guinea worm experts Drs. Donald Hopkins and Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben hosted a media roundtable via Google+ Hangou on Air to announce the provisional Guinea worm case totals for 2012 and discuss significant progress in the international Guinea worm eradication campaign led by The Carter Center.

Experts believe Guinea worm disease (also known as dracunculiasis) will be only the second human disease in history eradicated after smallpox. Guinea worm also will be the first parasitic disease eradicated and the first disease eradicated without a vaccine or medicine.

Using simple tools like fine-mesh water filters and health education, The Carter Center and its partners have worked at the grassroots to reduce cases of this ancient disease by more than 99.9 percent since the Carter Center began fighting Guinea worm in 1986.

Learn more about the Carter Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program: http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/mini_site/index.html

Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in partnership with Emory University, The Carter Center is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. The Center wages peace, fights disease, and builds hope worldwide.

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