Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae ...

J ohn A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s ...

Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

Even after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Carter remained focused: “I’d like the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” he told reporters in 2015.

From volcanic eruptions, disease epidemics and storms, to floods and fires, these are the worst natural disasters in Europe's ...

The center’s staff and volunteers walked house-to-house distributing water filters and teaching ... passed since the WHO declared in 1979 that smallpox was the first human disease to be ...

The center's staff and volunteers walked house to house distributing water filters and teaching ... passed since the WHO declared in 1979 that smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated ...

The center's staff and volunteers walked house-to-house distributing water filters and teaching ... passed since the WHO declared in 1979 that smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated ...