Reboot - Visual Entry #1

I greatly thank you to those who provided suggestions on what to improve for future visual entries. As a demo test, I worked out some kinks and amplified my voice for the first visual entry that delves in topic of the eradication process of the guinea worm. Please provide feedback or additional notes on what I'm missing, or what I need to still improve on. As promised, another entry is slated to be posted; however, due to some technicalities there's a chance the entry will not be posted until tomorrow morning/noon. Apologies for the inconvenience, I'm hoping to find a better video site than YouTube, in the meantime check out the improved version of Visual Entry #1 (attached after the video is an extensive transcript/summary of my coverage):


In recent times, relief has graced thousands of villages throughout Ghana, Africa, with the United States’ support in eradicating a treacherous parasite known as the guinea worm. The incurable pathogen is known for thriving from contaminated water.

According to a 2007 NBC News article by The Associated Press, once ingested, the guinea worm harvests and breeds within the interior tissue of human legs and feet, where over one million eggs are discharged from a single worm. The removal of such pathogens typically takes up to six weeks, where medical workers are advised to extract the parasite from an individual’s feet.

The presence of this alarming danger dates as early as the 1980’s, when over 3.5 million cases of guinea disease were reported, according to NBC News. Harrowingly, desperation would go on to reach its heightening point in 2007, when The Associated Press disclosed that several aid-workers were on their last effort following a backfire of damming implementation to retrieve rainwater. Such designations were utilized succeeding hopeless efforts in attaining further water supply via regional rock beds. Instead, they served as the breeding ground for the rapid harvesting of guinea pathogens.

In spite of scrapped plans, thousands of guinea cases have remarkably dwindled thanks in part to former United States President Jimmy Carter’s foundation, The Carter Center. On January 20, 2015, GhanaWeb.com revealed to the general public that the World Health Organization (WHO) fully recognized Ghana, Africa as a “polio free state,” in efforts pertaining to eliminate the guinea worm.

Former president Jimmy Carter’s foundation has been on an ongoing stride to eradicate this problem since the late 1980’s, following his encounter with an African native woman who was carrying the parasite.

In 2007, Carter disclosed to NBC News that Ghana and neighboring villages have been the “worst disappointment,” due to fluctuating progress of eliminating the parasitic presence. Yet promised, alongside Carter Center’s Ghana representative Jim Niquette, the disease would demise in a span of four to seven years. The prediction proved correct; resulting in sheer, groundbreaking progress.

In latest times, The Carter Center strives to produce further progress in eliminating the treacherous parasite in accompanying underprivileged third-world nations. Last year, officials for The Carter Center revealed to The Borgen Project that an annual $350 million plan is distributed to produce simple, low-tech implementation of clean water and to establish monitoring of infections. In spite of a bulky spending plan, officials confirm they plan to retain their same methods in confidently destroying this horrendous parasite.