The villain of this new documentary is a worm — but not just any worm.

"We have known monsters, all kinds of monsters," Waleed Eltayeb declares. "Then there's the dragon, this fiery serpent, this terror, this ill, this parasite, this worm."

He's talking about Guinea worm, which shares the title billing in the new film The President and the Dragon , premiering on Amazon Prime Video today, Oct. 1, which would have been the 101st birthday of "the President" — Jimmy Carter.

After leaving office, Carter's former drug czar Dr. Peter Bourne told him about the devastating effects of Guinea worm. Funding was hard to come by, so the former president made it his life's mission to eliminate the disease.

Guinea worm disease is caused when the worm itself is spread through contaminated

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