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Foul water, fiery serpent

Global Health Frontiers: Foul Water, Fiery Serpent, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world's poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as Guinea worm disease. The film, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Sigourney Weaver, documents the efforts of American health workers and community partners over the course of three years as they track the last-known reports of guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan. Through a relentless cycle of success and failure, facing ignorance and tribal superstitions in a harsh, vast landscape ravaged by war, these dedicated young men and women struggle to drive an ancient enemy into extinction.

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  • "Global Health Frontiers: Foul Water, Fiery Serpent, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world's poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as Guinea worm disease. The film, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Sigourney Weaver, documents the efforts of American health workers and community partners over the course of three years as they track the last-known reports of guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan. Through a relentless cycle of success and failure, facing ignorance and tribal superstitions in a harsh, vast landscape ravaged by war, these dedicated young men and women struggle to drive an ancient enemy into extinction."@en
  • "Follows dedicated health workers engaged in a final battle to eradicate the Guinea worm parasite in Africa."@en
  • "Follows health workers supported by the Carter Center who are engaged in a final battle in southern Sudan to eradicate the Guinea worm parasite in Africa."

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  • "Internet videos"@en
  • "Television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Short films"@en
  • "Medical television programs"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en

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