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Roundworms

Guinea worm

From an estimated 3.5 million cases a year in the 1980s to a handful today, with no drug and no vaccine. A cloth filter did it.

Filed under Pathogen Constellation Roundworms Status Upcoming

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From an estimated 3.5 million cases a year in the 1980s to a handful today, with no drug and no vaccine. A cloth filter did it.

This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.

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