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2.  What is this disease?  What causes it?  How do people get it?  Treatment/Prevention  Eradication efforts

3.  Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600’s

4. ◦ Grows and matures inside people

7. There is no cure.

9.  Boreholes or hand dug wells

10.  Filters larvae out

11.  Prevent people with emerging worms from entering ponds/wells used for drinking

13.  Hinders economy

14. "Ultimately, the work of The Carter Center is about helping people achieve better opportunities and watching hope take root where it languished before.“ —Jimmy Carter

18.  Will be the 3 rd infectious disease to be eradicated

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