FHIST NEWS wrote a new article:
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister.
There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and…
