John Borg

23| im kind of a big deal

[Bricky 🧱 @Bricky]

Dude conversion camp SUCKS this has NOTHING to do with Warhammer 40k kitbashing

[ゆらぴこ🌼🐤 @yura_burstgirl]

Today I learned new American phrase…🇺🇸

“Motion”

Can’t stop my motion deadass.

[matt @mattybtweets69]

Urologists really went to school and majored in penis

[frankie steins gay uncle @ewkewpid]

chopped my hair off and one of my balding customers said he’s refusing to tip me until it grows back so I said im refusing to serve him until his hair grows period and now I have a meeting with my manager tomorrow

[jorts 🇵🇸 @ftmensch]

my mom started volunteering with autistic children and annoyed one nonverbal student so bad that he literally spoke for the very first time in his life to tell her to shut up

[Finn Hulse @finn_hulse]

this format is so fucking funny

[☁‧₊˚⭑⚝ @fuckmxri]

FOUND IT BY PURE COINCIDENCE

[John Wilkes Booth @JohnWilkeBoots]

ok man go fuck yourself

[Champ✨ @Ib_ra_himm]

POV: The professor opening my exam realizing he's the dragon warrior

[Rusty @realrustyfinn]

what is zohran mamdani’s plan to save destiny 2

[@realWokeism @realWokeism]

Karl Marx failed to consider the Steam Summer Sale

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

no disrespect to the hotel staff but i sort of feel like letting your guests check out any time they like but not actually allowing them to leave is just bad policy

[lizee 💫 @troybarretts]

my friends birthday “party” invite she sent out is absolutely sending me

[Evalyn ･ﾟ:*☆ @Evalyn_Bevalyn]

small blue goblin ran across the room so i open palm smashed it into the wall #NotInMyHouse

[GoldenDodo @Golden__Dodo]

The Xenomorph AI gonna be so advanced he's gonna dox my IP address

[Slenderman @slendermmn]

Support my business

[anne @atsuover]

i’m locking in as soon as covid’s over bro

[cow @cowincrisis]

that’s why no jeep wrangler ever jumped over the moon

[Slenderman @slendermmn]

Collect my feelings

[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.