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One of my favorites, female guinea worms burrow into connective tissue after mating. When the larvae within are developed, the worm -up to 120cm long and as thick as a noodle- surfaces, makes a small blister on the skin, and rears its head portion from it. This causes such great pain that the sensation is described as the infected part being on fire. This horrible pain can be alleviated somewhat by putting the wound in water, which is precisely what the worm wants - once submerged, the larvae escape from the head portion of the worm into the water, sometimes blowing their mother's head with them.

The worms seek parts most likely to be connected with water (that is, the feet), but other locations can also happen - see picture. The worm can also fail to locate the skin, where it dies and you're left with a meter-long worm in your body to calcify.

>>3343128
They could. Eventually. Currently Africa is a place with the worst fucking diseases you can get (see picture), little to no sanitation, horrible weather and medical supplies so scarce that doctors find the need to patch people up with nylon sacks, in addition to their malnutrition problem. You can't exactly hope for an entire continent halfway into shit like that to suddenly solve all its problems.