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Video: Ghana tackles pesky worm

 

 
 Guinea worm disease afflicts Ghanaians 
 

A parasite ingested as larvae through polluted drinking water and burrows its way through the stomach lining, has been afflicitng hundreds of people in Ghana.

Al Jazeera’s Dan Nolan has been to a village in northern Ghana where health officials are working to help victims of the guinea worm disease, with assistance from a global programme set up by the Carter Foundation.