Show HN: The Last Worm – Visualizing guinea worm eradication, from 3.5M to 10

Show HN: The Last Worm – Visualizing guinea worm eradication, from 3.5M to 10


Drink contaminated water, and a year later, a worm up to three feet long emerges from a blister in your leg over the course of weeks. The only treatment is to slowly wind the emerging worm around a stick, centimeter by centimeter, day after day, for weeks. The cut of a knife hurts for an instant, but the pain of Guinea worm lasts all day and all night."

Author: onyx_writes


Published at: 2026-02-04 22:58:06

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