Guinea worm disease may be second eliminated after smallpox

Friday, February 4, 2011 - 11:04 in Health & Medicine

Health officials are poised to eradicate guinea worm disease, a plague that once afflicted millions and which would be just the second human disease wiped from the face of the earth, Donald Hopkins, vice president of health programs for The Carter Center, said Tuesday (Feb. 1).

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