Save the Guinea Worm? Um, no thank you! DIE!

[Minty]

Some people really don't get it!

http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/index.htm



Here's why the Guinea Worm is "rare" (it was at epidemic levels until the 1990s, & had been for 4000 years!)




This is someone trying to take one out of his foot. Delightful. They come from drinking unfiltered water, hatch inside a person's tum, & burrow their way through them getting bigger and bigger, causing unbearable burning pain. Victims bathe in cold water to relieve the pain, which in Africa means the nearest river. Worm burrows out into the river, lays its eggs & starts the cycle all over again. Victims are left with permanent sometimes crippling damage.

The only way of getting rid of them is fooling them to come out and then winding them around a matchstick slowly so it doesn't snap, a very long and very painful process.

Jimmy Carter worked to get simple water filters supplied all over Africa for free to stop people drinking the worm eggs. Today it appears he has succeeded, but religious nutters, ultra-ecowarriors and right wing extremists are criticising him for destroying a species of no benefit to anything else. To hell with them, thanks to Carter millions in the poorest areas of the world have one less horror to contend with. Happy day!