The Carter Centre, which leads the eradication campaign, says just 30 cases were reported last year in isolated areas of Ethiopia and Chad. Global #Guineaworm eradication campaign numbers are in for 2017: 30 cases in isolated areas of Chad and Ethiopia. https://t.co/YgVnqzdXEY pic.twitter.com/sjAY4G3L3CMali has not reported any cases in 25 months, and civil war-torn South Sudan has reported no cases in 13 months. The report says all 15 cases in Ethiopia last year occurred at a farm where workers drank unfiltered water from a contaminated pond. The incapacitating disease three decades ago affected more than three million people in 21 countries in Africa and Asia.

Source: Irish Independent January 20, 2018 09:45 UTC