Scientists set to eradicate guineaworm worldwide

Scientists are on the verge of killing off a parasite that had plagued the human race since ancient times.
Cases of Guinea worm disease have fallen by 99 per cent from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to 1,060 in 2011, Daily Mail of London reports.
The disease has affected the poorest communities in Africa and is now found in just South Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, and Chad.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center has led the campaign to eradicate the infection, said, ‘We are approaching the demise of the last guinea worm who will ever live on earth.”
The parasitic infection is caused by the nematode roundworm parasite Dracunculus medenisis.
It is contracted when someone drinks stagnant water that contains water flears which harbour Guinea worm larvae.
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