Guinea worm disease will be eradicated soon (within a few years of 2015).
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“Guinea worm, an incredibly painful disease whose sufferers spend months incapacitated while worms that can be several feet long burst out of their legs, will also be gone soon, thanks in large part to the leadership of President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center.”
- Said on
- 22 January 2015 · 2015 Gates Annual Letter "Our Big Bet for the Future" (co-signed by Bill and Melinda Gates), health section
- Source
- 2015 Gates Annual Letter: Our Big Bet for the Future · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (via US Senate Appropriations Committee)
- Should come true
- No date given
- How sure they sounded
- stated as fact ("will also be gone soon")
- Categories
- Health
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · It would be only the second human disease ever eradicated.
Outcome
Inaccurate
Inferred window: "soon" taken as about 2 years (to ~2017), and generously no later than ~2020. Guinea worm was still not eradicated in 2026: the Carter Center counted 10 human cases in 2025 (a record low), and six countries remain uncertified. So it was not "gone soon".
- https://www.cartercenter.org/news/guinea-worm-announcement/
- https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/04/guinea-worm-is-close-to-being-the-second-disease-eradicated-in-history-following-smallpox
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