Salomon Kosoma, a fisherman and farmer in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also a community ...

Others have re-emerged due to poverty and failures in public health. Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) is a parasitic infection transmitted by the ingestion of larvae in contaminated water.

The book was the last he published during his lifetime. —Jimmy Carter, former US President and head of the Carter Center, an NGO that seeks to stamp out dracunculiasis in Africa, at a press conference ...