News, The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication. (life, speak)

[John1960]

A parasite that has plagued the human race since antiquity is poised to become the second human disease after smallpox to be eradicated. “We are approaching the demise of the last guinea worm who will ever live on earth,” says former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center has spearheaded the eradication effort.

The World

[Ghengis]

Who Speaks for the Guinea Worms?

August 7th is Int'l Save the Guninea Worm Day!

Save the Guinea Worm Foundation: defending the world's most endangered species.

[eskercurve]

First smallpox, then guinea worm, and probably polio. Next will be HIV/AIDS, and within my lifetime we'll likely see the eradication of disease as a whole.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by eskercurve

First smallpox, then guinea worm, and probably polio. Next will be HIV/AIDS, and within my lifetime we'll likely see the eradication of disease as a whole.

Nah, Polio is making a comeback thanks to all the anti-vaccination freaks that bought in to the fraudulent autism "study" out of Britain.

Some still cling to their religion, citing the 0.01% that have bad reactions to vaccinations and would rather have 100-1000x as many ravaged by polio instead.

Measles outbreak from unvaccinated

Gotta love the people that took thier unvaccinated 2.5yo to KENYA....and brought back measles for the rest of the unvaccinated. (now look at the map below....hey, isn't Kenya in Africa?)

Current state of world polio....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/he...glob.html?_r=1

[Zimbochick]

And the Taliban have banned polio vaccinations in Afghanistan as a protest against the US. A bizarre act as the people who will suffer the most are the Afghan people. Look for a polio outbreak in the summer of 2013.

[kingdavid2012]

Originally Posted by Douglas Dakota

There are about 1.33 bln. Chinese people in the world, roughly about 20% of the world population. Statistically, the probabillity is very high to meet one of them, compared to other nation's people.

Human's progressive pace should not be stamped by any politic intention.

That should arouse enough attention.