Here's some good news about our world becoming a better place to live, thanks to an NGO founded by Jimmy Carter and presumably staffed with open-minded progressives. So let's give credit where credit is due.

The NYT reports that Nigeria has been free of guinea worm infections for a year. . .

There seems to be occasional transfer into humans of various other forms, and transfer of the human parasite into domesticated animals, but access to filtered water is sufficient to break the human cycle. In several countries where human dracunculiasis was eliminated many decades ago, it hasn't returned, so the simple effort to provide clean water seems sufficient to eradicate it.

Hey, sometimes this stuff actually works!