Jimmy Carter

No medicine will prevent it. No medicine will cure it. For 10,000s of years, they wrapped the guinea worm when it came out around a stick and put some tension on it so it would come out in 20 days instead of 30 days. So you had to suffer three weeks instead of four weeks. And so we found that if you pour the water through a filter cloth,

No medicine will prevent it. No medicine will cure it. For 10,000s of years, they wrapped the guinea worm when it came out around a stick and put some tension on it so it would come out in 20 days instead of 30 days. So you had to suffer three weeks instead of four weeks. And so we found that if you pour the water through a filter cloth,

the kind that won't rot in the tropics, and we provided that. Then it screens out the guinea worm eggs, and then you can drink your filthy water without the guinea worm eggs, and you don't have the guinea worm. So that's what we've done.

the kind that won't rot in the tropics, and we provided that. Then it screens out the guinea worm eggs, and then you can drink your filthy water without the guinea worm eggs, and you don't have the guinea worm. So that's what we've done.

Some of them were, because the medicine men were making a lot of money treating it by putting it on a stick and twisting it. Sure. And also, they thought that the pond was sacred, If it hadn't been for the pond, their ancestors wouldn't live, their village wouldn't be there. So we were insinuating that the disease came out of our sacred pond.

Some of them were, because the medicine men were making a lot of money treating it by putting it on a stick and twisting it. Sure. And also, they thought that the pond was sacred, If it hadn't been for the pond, their ancestors wouldn't live, their village wouldn't be there. So we were insinuating that the disease came out of our sacred pond.

So then if you hold up the glass and have a magnifying glass, you can see the little things swimming around in there. So we convinced them that these were alien people, alien things in their pond, so they let us provide the filter cloths. But we had to go to every single village on Earth that had the disease.

So then if you hold up the glass and have a magnifying glass, you can see the little things swimming around in there. So we convinced them that these were alien people, alien things in their pond, so they let us provide the filter cloths. But we had to go to every single village on Earth that had the disease.

So we feel that we have prevented about 80 million cases of guinea worms since we first started.

So we feel that we have prevented about 80 million cases of guinea worms since we first started.

DuPont gave us a special filter that wouldn't rot in the tropics.

DuPont gave us a special filter that wouldn't rot in the tropics.

And it had to be woven by people that make parachutes. Wow. Where it's woven together tightly.

And it had to be woven by people that make parachutes. Wow. Where it's woven together tightly.

Well, we don't rag it because we get a lot of money from the Bill Gates Foundation.

Well, we don't rag it because we get a lot of money from the Bill Gates Foundation.

Are there other things you want to do? Some of the same people. We go out in the jungle and in the desert areas where nobody else wants to go. They call these neglected diseases because nobody... They really didn't like the people.

Are there other things you want to do? Some of the same people. We go out in the jungle and in the desert areas where nobody else wants to go. They call these neglected diseases because nobody... They really didn't like the people.

One of the worst cases that comes from filthy eyes, where flies gather around your eyes, is called trachoma. It's the number one cause of preventable blindness. Cataracts are called more, but trachoma is worse. And when you go into a Maasai village or a Dinka village and you see little children at a distance, you think they're wearing eyeglasses.

One of the worst cases that comes from filthy eyes, where flies gather around your eyes, is called trachoma. It's the number one cause of preventable blindness. Cataracts are called more, but trachoma is worse. And when you go into a Maasai village or a Dinka village and you see little children at a distance, you think they're wearing eyeglasses.