Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low
Is anyone doing anything to save the endangered Guinea Worm? Do we have DNA sequences, freeze-dried and fossilized remains, chemical analysis? Have we tested the viability of reviving eggs after a few years frozen?It's a terrible disease and I don't want anyone to ever get it again... but I'm something of a pessimist in terms of how eradicated we can make it, and believe there's probably still something to be learned from the methods by which it infects hosts - How it evades detection, stifles the body's immune system, or whatever. There is probably value in keeping a population around even once it's eliminated in the wild, for research and study... Though whether it's worth the time, effort, and risk is a question for epidemiologists, not me.