Can We Eradicate A Second Human Disease? – Podcast

The number of quality cases of guinea worm, a achy and debilitating tropical illness, fell to a grounds debased of conscionable 10 past year, according to nan Carter Centre, nan instauration group up by nan precocious erstwhile US president Jimmy Carter. But contempt years-long declines, it remains almost intolerable to wholly eliminate nan parasite. Only 1 quality unwellness has been wholly eradicated: smallpox. Why is it truthful difficult, and could guinea worm 1 time beryllium nan second? Ian Sample hears from co-host Madeleine Finlay, and David Molyneux, emeritus professor of tropical illness microbiology astatine nan Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine