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From a distance, President Jimmy Carter thought, it looked like a baby. Male? Female? He was too far away to tell.
The woman cradling the child was standing near the outskirts of the crowd. The former president of the United States, who had kept his campaigning days playing with babies, walked over to say hello. After a few steps, he paused.
“It wasn’t a baby she was holding," he says. "It was her right breast ... and there was a worm coming out of its nipple.”
It was the late '80s in a tiny village in Ghana, just a handful of miles outside the capital city of Accra, and the scene wasn't all that uncommon. Dracunculiasis, or "Guinea worm disease," had plagued the region for decades. Read more...
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