In the 1980s, UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy Carter. In June 2023, Mariam, a Sudanese refugee from the ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The Carter Center's decades-long fight against an ancient ...

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(CNN) -- "It's such a loser of a disease that some countries eradicated it without even knowing they'd had it. It can naturally disappear." The disease Sandy Cairncross of the London School of Hygiene ...

The villain of this new documentary is a worm — but not just any worm. "We have known monsters, all kinds of monsters," Waleed Eltayeb declares. "Then there's the dragon, this fiery serpent, this ...