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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

Place: Savelugu, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: 黑料不打烊

At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region, Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

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