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The donation, to tackle blinding trachoma in the West African nations of Mali and Niger, was announced this week. Speaking on behalf of the...
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Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is an eye and skin disease caused by a worm (filaria) called Onchocerca volvulus. The disease is transmitted to humans through...
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The disease onchocerciasis (river blindness) has been declared ‘eliminated’ from Guatemala by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Guatemala’s minister of health, Dr. Lucrecia...
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In eliminating river blindness, Mexico becomes the third country in the world (that had the disease) to have officially eliminated it. Mexico’s Secretary of...