Foul Water / Fiery Serpent
Directed by: Gary Strieker - 88 min. - USA
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Follow dedicated health workers engaged in a final battle to eradicate Guinea worm disease in Africa. For thousands of years the parasite has caused disabling misery, infecting people who drink water contaminated with the worm's larvae. For nearly three years the film tracks teams of men and women as they fight to wipe out the last Guinea worms. Following the victory against smallpox, Guinea worm will be the next disease in the history of mankind to be eradicated.


2:00 pm
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Carter Center in the Cyprus Room


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