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river blindness

Another name for onchocerciasis, a disease prevalent in some countries of the developing world.
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A recent study found treatment could lead to elimination of river blindness and related skin infections, which affect more than 37 million people worldwide, most of them in poor, rural African communities.
Eliminating river blindness 'feasible' by Currie, Donya / The Nation's Health
Twenty-two years ago, Merck started giving away a drug to treat river blindness, a devastating infectious disease endemic to certain countries in Africa and Latin America.
Will Pfizer's Giveaway Drugs Polish Its Public Image? by Arlene Weintraub / BusinessWeek
A STUDY by the UN's health body has shown that the disease onchocerciasis - also known as river blindness - could be wiped out using drugs.
River blindness cure by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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