Life in a Cattle Camp in Southern Sudan (The Carter Center)

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While insecurity remains the largest threat to the final push to eliminate Guinea worm disease from Sudan, the main—and potentially the last—bastion of the parasitic water-borne disease, the mass population movements of nomadic pastoralists in Southern Sudan pose an additional challenge.

Read the feature: Nomadic Groups Pose Challenge in Push to Eliminate Guinea Worm
http://cartercenter.org/news/features/h/guinea_worm/cattle-camps-sudan.html

When The Carter Center began leading the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases of the disease in 20 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, less than a fraction of one percent of Guinea worm cases remain in a handful of endemic countries: Sudan, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Mali.

Guinea worm disease is contracted when a person drinks stagnant water that is contaminated with microscopic water fleas carrying infective larvae. Inside a person's body, the larvae grow for a year, becoming thin thread-like worms, up to 1-meter or 3-feet-long.

These worms create agonizingly painful blisters in the skin, through which they slowly exit the body. People with emerging worms must not bathe or step in sources of drinking water, because a worm will release hundreds of thousands of eggs, or larvae, into the water. Water fleas then eat the larvae, and people who drink unfiltered water from the pond become infected -- continuing the life cycle of the parasite.

Learn more about the Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program:
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

Learn more about the Carter Center's work in Sudan: http://cartercenter.org/countries/sudan.html

The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the Atlanta-based Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 70 countries.

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[MRLANGFORD100]

what part of africa do you live what kind of african meals do you cook do you design your own clothing what is your religion my name is veronica please respond back thank you

[ambayo1]

i love south sudan.



[CHRCAR5]

very nice thank you