Carter Center tackles guinea worm in South Sudan

The community in Jarweng village thought they’d seen the end of Guinea worm in 2014, but last year the remote settlement of some 500 people became the epicenter of South Sudan’s latest outbreak, recording four of the country’s six cases.

Nyingong Aguek and her 13 and seven-year-old sons contracted the worm after drinking from a swamp while traveling outside their village in May 2021.

“Having the worm pulled out is more painful…