The world might be close to eradicating Guinea worm.

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Jul 24, 2024
4:02:56pm

Spiff SequelTrilogyFan

The world might be close to eradicating Guinea worm.

No guinea worm cases have been detected in the first three months of 2024 - worldwide!

If this continues, we could soon achieve global eradication of the third disease in history.

Here's how much guinea worm has declined since the 1980s. Note: log scale. https://t.co/6D9YDIX1Al pic.twitter.com/4REh5D8pNm
— Saloni (@salonium) July 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/salonium/status/1816173314412355970

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The world might be close to eradicating Guinea worm.

Spiff SequelTrilogyFan

Jul 24, 4:02pm

#SaveTheGuineaWorm!!! Humans are causing this beautiful animal to go extinct.

AZPTCOUG

Jul 24, 4:08pm

That is a log scale graph too, nice.

paulb

Jul 24, 5:47pm

I don't know what that means.

Spiff

Jul 24, 5:51pm

The graph is really really plummeting. Instead of 1,000 between each line (or

paulb

Jul 24, 5:58pm

Guinea worm = fiery serpent of the Old Testament

drdrcoug

Jul 24, 6:05pm

What are the other two? Smallpox and polio?

Florwood

Jul 24, 6:08pm

Probably?

Spiff

Jul 24, 6:11pm

Looked it up. Smallpox and rinderpest (cattle)

Florwood

Jul 24, 6:13pm

Polio has to be pretty close.

Spiff

Jul 24, 6:19pm

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