this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

This is horrifying, but something that's cool is that we went from millions of cases of this per year to only 14 cases in 2024, thanks in large part to Jimmy Carter's foundation and campaigning. https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

Jimmy Carter said that he hoped that the last guinea worm would die before he did, and unfortunately we didn't manage that, but I hope that we're still able to finish the work

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty high on the list of things I did not need to see today

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

But I'm not ready to be a dad!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's my cue to go to sleep.