Guinea Worm in Nigeria, 2001
In 2001, photographer Mike Urban and I went to Nigeria as part of a report we did for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the early days of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation global health program.
One of the world’s biggest health problems is dirty water. One of the most horrific illnesses you can get from drinking dirty water is guinea worm, aka dracunculiasis. We visited a village where Carter Center health workers combined treatment of the affliction with prevention education and water supply improvement projects.
Here’s a link to the story on guinea worm we did back then and a slide show of Mike’s photos:
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- Water supply in the dry season, rural Nigeria
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- Woman collecting water, Nigeria
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- Guinea worm patients
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- Woman having guinea worm extracted, Nigeria
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- Guinea worm emerging from child’s foot, Nigeria
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- Guinea worm after extraction, Nigeria
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- Viewing the new borehole for water, Nigeria
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- Borehole water supply, Nigeria
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