A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resetera.com/threads/guinea-worm-is-close-to-being-the-second-disease-eradicated-in-history-following-smallpox.1496311/
Chuck Darwin
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