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With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.