all of the universe so we’re talking
about my interview with Jimmy Carter and
his efforts to eradicate the guinea worm
something of your specialty mark yeah
you think about these kinds of things
all the time every day which creeps me
out
I just want you to know okay okay just
just yeah it’s fine okay it doesn’t
creep you out no
so the guinea worm it’s not called the
American worm I called the Russian worm
no it’s not the whole the Cuba were no
the guinea worm but nobody wants a
disease named after the country that
certainly true and President Carter knew
this he knew this he did indeed and he
used this to his diplomatic advantage
yes check it out we had a very difficult
problem in Ghana which started out with
126 thousand cases and they got down to
about 35 or 40 this stayed there for
about 10 years so I finally went to the
president three times and told that
we’re going to change the name of the
other guinea worm to gonna work oh right
because it’s named after where it was
first discovered on you can see were
diagnosed yesterday Wow and so wasn’t
awesome and we raised a lot of fresh
political pressure on him and he finally
got the word and he became interested
and now we have zero cases clever
peaceful threat remember that sometimes
I got kind of angry with us but uh it
works nice the man was just thrown it
down you know that is that is I mean
that is a great little ploy you know
Carter pulled off some more hit some
more tricks in his bag you know he’s
he’s a he’s a he wants peace what’s the
what’s the hashtag waging peace waging
peace and he actually used the guinea
worm to achieve peace in one incident
absolutely let’s find out how he did it
they had a war going on that was fought
in dry seasons and wet seasons a dry
season was when Sudan with tanks
so forth could travel easily the wet
season was when the rivers flooded and
the southern Sudanese could prevail so I
went there and negotiated for quite a
while with the south and north and
finally agreed on a ceasefire just so
that we could do away with guinea worm
both in the north and south and they
still call it the guinea worm ceasefire
but but they quit fighting for more than
six months that reminds me of you you
read about it was in the first world war
there was the Christmas ceasefire or the
Easter ceasefire and it’s a glimmer of
hope that there’s some humanitarian
dimension is that if you give people a
chance in a very poverty-stricken
country to correct their own problems
they do it superbly
about my interview with Jimmy Carter and
his efforts to eradicate the guinea worm
something of your specialty mark yeah
you think about these kinds of things
all the time every day which creeps me
out
I just want you to know okay okay just
just yeah it’s fine okay it doesn’t
creep you out no
so the guinea worm it’s not called the
American worm I called the Russian worm
no it’s not the whole the Cuba were no
the guinea worm but nobody wants a
disease named after the country that
certainly true and President Carter knew
this he knew this he did indeed and he
used this to his diplomatic advantage
yes check it out we had a very difficult
problem in Ghana which started out with
126 thousand cases and they got down to
about 35 or 40 this stayed there for
about 10 years so I finally went to the
president three times and told that
we’re going to change the name of the
other guinea worm to gonna work oh right
because it’s named after where it was
first discovered on you can see were
diagnosed yesterday Wow and so wasn’t
awesome and we raised a lot of fresh
political pressure on him and he finally
got the word and he became interested
and now we have zero cases clever
peaceful threat remember that sometimes
I got kind of angry with us but uh it
works nice the man was just thrown it
down you know that is that is I mean
that is a great little ploy you know
Carter pulled off some more hit some
more tricks in his bag you know he’s
he’s a he’s a he wants peace what’s the
what’s the hashtag waging peace waging
peace and he actually used the guinea
worm to achieve peace in one incident
absolutely let’s find out how he did it
they had a war going on that was fought
in dry seasons and wet seasons a dry
season was when Sudan with tanks
so forth could travel easily the wet
season was when the rivers flooded and
the southern Sudanese could prevail so I
went there and negotiated for quite a
while with the south and north and
finally agreed on a ceasefire just so
that we could do away with guinea worm
both in the north and south and they
still call it the guinea worm ceasefire
but but they quit fighting for more than
six months that reminds me of you you
read about it was in the first world war
there was the Christmas ceasefire or the
Easter ceasefire and it’s a glimmer of
hope that there’s some humanitarian
dimension is that if you give people a
chance in a very poverty-stricken
country to correct their own problems
they do it superbly
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