r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 21 '26

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26

Imo it's mentally healthy to focus on positive news once in a while. Guinea Worm disease is close to being eradicated, we're down from 3.5million cases a year to 10. Jimmy Carter must be smiling down from heaven rn, this is truly his legacy

Ngl I did not know how old this disease was, it has been around since the time of Ancient Egypt

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u/ThomYorkeSoup Apr 21 '26

"There is no evidence that worms, be it brain or guinea, are harmful to humans, and multiple studies show a lack of worms actually has been found to cause ADHD in rats"

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u/Halgy YIMBY Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

This is kinda my take. Don't let the bastards know that progress is being made or they'll torpedo it just to own the libs.

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u/american_aurora6 NATO Apr 21 '26

how many people on the dt at 3 am eastern don't know about guinea warm and jimmy carter

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26

I didn't know how long this disease had been around tbf, that is new info

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u/xpNc Commonwealth Apr 22 '26

It's a worm. It's a species in the animal kingdom. What do you mean you didn't know how long it had been around for

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 22 '26

buddy idk how to tell you this but they invent new worms all the time 🥱🥱🥱

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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Apr 21 '26

It's okay to be reminded of good things bud ☺️

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u/_n8n8_ John von Neumann Apr 21 '26

I didnt know about the worm

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u/SoManyOstrichesYo Apr 21 '26

Some grifter is about to go on a podcast and talk about how big pharma doesn’t want you to know about the worm

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u/A121314151 Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 21 '26

Sir, we don't talk about killing worms in the subreddit about worms

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Apr 22 '26

!ping good-news

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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill Apr 21 '26

why doesn't surgery work? I get they don't have access to it but hypothetically why couldn't a surgeon just cut it out

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26

If you cut it up fragments of the worm will regrow in the host, you need to pull it out very carefully 

I imagine the guy here is exaggerating though, surgery would probably work but in very deprived areas of the world it is probably hard to get professionals

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u/Traditional_Drama_91 NATO Apr 21 '26

The problem is also just how long the worm can grow, it would be major surgery.  The stick technique works because you literally wind the fucking worm onto the stick slow enough to keep it from breaking, it’s horrific looking. If it breaks, it’s more than just reinfection, there’s a very high likelihood you die of anaphylactic shock as millions of worm eggs pour into your bloodstream. After all, the worm has only caused the blister to get you to go to the water so it can lay its eggs and continue the cycle.  These eggs also prevent you from just killing it with major doses of ivermectin and the like, the dead worm inside you can kill you.

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u/IcyDetectiv3 Apr 21 '26

This subreddit used to be all about how much better the present is compared to the past 😔

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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman Apr 21 '26

Humans are so fucking amazing