Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

JARWENG, South Sudan — Noble Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ...

The former president changed global health by sparing millions of people from Guinea worm, river blindness and other ...

A British ‘danger tourist’ on a mission to visit every country has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea.

When researcher and bird expert Jack Dumbacher was mist-netting in New Guinea, his team accidentally caught a lot of hooded ...

China’s State Power Investment Corp. will start the construction of its alumina processing plant in Guinea this year after ...

Will Smith is a young guinea pig who was transferred to the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast from a different shelter ...

Thanks to the efforts of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the Guinea worms that affected 3.5 million people in 1986 are now on the ...

MTN Group has announced the conclusion of the sale of its operations in Guinea, also known as MTN Guinea-Conakry, to the ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...

FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to ...