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Tereketa, South Sudan - 4 October 2017
1.STILL photo a woman points to two scares on her leg where two worms emerged, in Terekeka, South Sudan.
ANNOTATION: The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year.
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Tereketa, South Sudan - 4 October 2017
2.STILL photo of Regina Bodi points her toe from where three worms emerged in 2009 when she was infected with Guinea Worm in her town of Terekeka.
ANNOTATION: After decades of progress, the eradication program's director cautioned the end phase of the global effort to eradicate the parasitic disease will be "the most difficult."
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Atlanta, Georgia - 20 January 2023
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Weiss, The Carter Center:
"The last mile is the most difficult. It's going to be cases occurring in communities that are the most difficult to access, oftentimes inaccessibility of safe water, inaccessibility of basic infrastructure or health care. And oftentimes in populations that are very much marginalized within their own countries."
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Savelugu, Ghana - 9 March 2007
4.STILL photo of a Guinea worm is extracted by a health worker from a child's foot.
ANNOTATION: The Atlanta-based center, founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Eleanor Rosalynn Carter, said the remaining infections occurred in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
ANNOTATION: Six human cases were reported in Chad, five in South Sudan, one in Ethiopia and one in the Central African Republic, which remains under investigation.
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Abuyong, Sudan - 5 November 2010
5.STILL photo of John Lotiki, a nurse with the Carter Center's guinea worm eradication program in Abuyong, a remote area of Southern Sudan's Lakes state, holds a soda bottle containing guinea worms that he has recently extracted from the swollen blisters of patients he is treating.
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Atlanta, Georgia - 20 January 2023
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Weiss, The Carter Center:
"If we're able to develop and deploy diagnostics to help understand who has guinea worm, even if they don't have an emergent worm being able to identify guinea worm and water sources before people might drink that water source or animals to be infected from those water sources will actually be able to shorten what at least right now is a longer last mile."
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Tereketa, South Sudan - 4 October 2017
7.STILL photo of children in the town of Terekeka draw water from a stagnant pond that was once infected with Guinea Worm when the town was endemic
ANNOTATION: The provisional figures are expected to be confirmed in the coming months.
STORYLINE:
The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year.
But after decades of progress, the eradication program's director cautioned the end phase of the global effort to eradicate the parasitic disease will be "the most difficult."
The Atlanta-based center founded by President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, said the remaining infections occurred in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Six human cases were reported in Chad, five in South Sudan, one in Ethiopia, and one in the Central African Republic, which remains under investigation.
That's a significant drop from when Carter began leading the global eradication effort in 1986, when the disease infected 3.5 million people.
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