The Carter Center says there were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025. The new record low comes barely a year after the death of former U.S.

Jimmy Carter made eradicating the Guinea worm a top mission of The Carter Center. Now it could soon become the second disease ...

Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient ...

Former CDC Director Bill Foege saved millions of lives by helping eradicate smallpox. He worried until his death about dark forces undermining public health.

The United States is abdicating its leadership in global health, represented by people like the late Dr. William Foege, who helped to eradicate smallpox, writes public health expert.

University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health published its report in 2014.1 At that time, progress towards the Millennium Development Goals had been made, the Sustainable Development ...

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring ...

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...

William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...