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Malaria is a leading killer in Africa and other developing countries, claiming more than 1 million lives each year, most of them children. A small clinical trial conducted by an international team of researchers in Mali has found that a candidate malaria vaccine was safe and elicited strong immune responses in the 40 Malian adults who received it.

“I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” he said at a news conference in 2015.

Jimmy Carter took great pride in pointing out that the U.S. didn’t start any new wars during his term as president. But after he left office, he launched a war against “neglected” diseases — diseases in far-off lands that most Americans will never suffer from and may not have even heard of.

Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.