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Hey look, I remember how to paint #sciart

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Jimmy Carter's Fight Against Guinea Worm: A Personal Reflection Lessons from a humanitarian icon

Jimmy Carter's Fight Against Guinea Worm: A Personal Reflection
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RIP Jimmy Carter 🫡

Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) A crippling parasitic disease, transmitted exclusively when people drink stagnant water, dracunculiasis is poised for eradication, with 25 human cases reported in 2016. #BeatNTDs

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Jimmy Carter's decades-long crusade against a forgotten disease: Guinea worm Kenyans will remember President Jimmy Carter as the man who defeated the guinea worm. The disease is on schedule to be eradicated by 2030.

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Near-eradication of a debilitating parasitic disease is a pillar of Carter’s legacy | CNN In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer – metastatic melanoma – had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own dis...

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#JimmyCarter led the eradication efforts against the Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic worm. A few years ago, I stitched the worm emerging from a skin blister while being wound onto a stick, which is the traditional treatment. News links in comments. #sciart 🐡

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For the many parasitologists in the starter packs who are malaria researchers, this post is for you!

For the fiber art nerds:
This was my third embroidery project and first try at thread painting. I was still very much a newbie lol! But I’m also still pretty happy with this one. #sciart 🐡

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May I be added, please? This account is mainly my artsy stuff but I am also a parasitology professor.

Hello, thank you for making this starter pack. Can I be added, please? This account is mainly my artsy stuff, but I am also a parasitology professor.

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Here’s the mammary gland project in its new home, alongside a cell in anaphase and a neuromuscular junction. #sciart 🐡

Amazing! ‘Twinkling Toxoplasma’ Tree (image by Kseniia Bondarenko) wins 2024 Festive Science Image Competition.

I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :)

Feel free to extend the gap!!

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This is amazing! Thank you! So happy to see other parasitologists here!

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I've posted this before but only in the other place, here is a mini mini quilt I made a while ago with some recently added embroidery. #sciart #anatomy

This is amazing! Love it!!

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Yes lol - so many French knots!

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I love snails! I’m a trematode parasite biologist and they always have a snail host. 🐌