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A new documentary called “The President and the Dragon” looks at the late former President Jimmy Carter’s effort to eradicate guinea worm, a parasite once found across Africa and parts of Asia. Since the Carter Center started working on the cause, the disease has been nearly eradicated.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and Makoy Samuel Yibi, director of South Sudan’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program.
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