"Ghana conquers worm after 23-year fight" July 29, 2011|Associated Press
ACCRA, Ghana - Jimmy Carter watched in horror as the inches-long worm emerged from the breast of a woman in remote northern Ghana. That was in the 1980s. The former US president vowed to see the sickness eradicated and estimated it would take 10 years.
Yesterday, after 23 years of hard work on clean, safe drinking water systems, Ghana finally declared victory....
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