Matthew Hunter

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[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Good job nice jinx

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Fried chicken would be my #1 answer here

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@GodofKrypton a pitcher in contact with the rubber is charged with a balk if they throw to an unoccupied base, except for the purpose of making a play.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Bogey would’ve fine lol

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@SheaSerrano It’s a whoop

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 16 probably easier than 15

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Color me skeptical someone will shoot 62

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

There was another guy who shot 40 on the opening 9 once and won.

[Jason Sobel @JasonSobelGolf]

Cameron Young opened with a first-nine 40 on Thursday.

He's played his next 45 holes in 15-under.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

I love Rory McIlroy but this has been an extremely entertaining day of golf so far.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 It is not. That’s a parody.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Maybe he’s dyslexic and he meant 76

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@KylePorterNS Subscribed. I’m looking forward to seeing Ludvig play the back 9 in contention on Sunday with water lurking on so many of the holes, that and the great P Reed content.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@KylePorterNS I like your alternate more than you $10 spend.

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 I was more thinking Collin’s WD in The Players…

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 Any recent winners coming off of a WD?

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@lucy_rohden What’s the Deal?

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

I’m the safest anyone has ever been.

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

The player from your birth month has to make a wide open three to save your life. Are you safe?

[PGA TOUR University @PGATOURU]

Charlie Woods spotted at @TGL in a Florida State hat.

📺 ESPN2

[Matthew Hunter @MatthewHunter30]

@cblunt58 But it’s a par 68 for him