President Carter’s most enduring global legacy could be making Guinea worm the second infectious human disease to be eradicated, after smallpox in 1980. JennyJarvie reports:
At a transitional moment in U.S. history, President Carter opted to emphasize human rights in U.S. foreign policy, shaking up the establishment and altering the conversation ever since.One of the outstanding achievements of the Carter presidency was the 1979 peace settlement between Israel and Egypt.
In 1988, Carter encountered the Guinea worm for the first time in the village of Denchira near Accra, the Ghanian capital. About half the village’s 500 inhabitants were infected, some so crippled that they could not leave their huts. Carter spotted a young woman he thought was cradling a baby in the crook of her right arm, but when he approached, he realized she was not holding an infant.
Adam Weiss examines 10-year-old Fusini Adam’s leg for Guinea worm disease in the village of Nyujaguyili in northern Ghana in 2006. After speaking at the Carter Center on the importance of clean drinking water, Bourne said he hosted the Carters on a trout fishing vacation at his farm in Wales and asked the former president to be the figurehead for the campaign to fight the parasitic disease.
“I didn’t want to bother a former president of the United States every time I ran into a problem in one country or another; I tried to save that big thing for the big problems,” Hopkins said. “But he insisted.”
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