river blindness
onchocerciasis
Robles disease

The new drug is the latest in a series of efforts against river blindness.

Even less money would be needed to counter river blindness, which is still the scourge of millions.

There are, however, other diseases, such as sleeping sickness and river blindness, which have been neglected.

Just £10 in sponsorship money will protect ten people from river blindness for a year.

Furthermore, the state has the highest case of river blindness and other debilitating illnesses.

Now onchocerciasis, or river blindness, appears to be under control.

The reservoir is suspected to be a major breeding site for black flies, which cause river blindness.

And now those fighting river blindness have been handed an unexpected new weapon: a safe, effective drug.

They could not have guessed that their efforts would also yield a spectacular new weapon against river blindness.

This disease, called River Blindness, made it impossible for him to sit and attend class.

River blindness has been eliminated from the region.

Health officials have also been inspired by major progress against another parasitic worm disease in Africa, river blindness.

Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness.

They found I did have river blindness.

In recent years, its drug for river blindness was handed out in Africa - for free.

The international river blindness campaign seeks to eliminate the disease from the Western Hemisphere by 2015.

Diseases wiped out in most other parts of the world continue to thrive there, like guinea worm and river blindness.

Those who are most familiar with the geographic and human terrain of river blindness have no illusions about the disease's tenacity.

One notable project started during McNamara's tenure was the effort to prevent river blindness.

The hovering flies were likely carriers of onchocerciasis (river blindness).

The findings suggest that it could be possible to develop a vaccine that protects people against river blindness using a similar approach.

Army service led to academic work on blood products and onchocerciasis (river blindness, a tropical disease).

Eradicating smallpox and reducing river blindness have improved the lives of more people for less money than almost any investment imaginable.

Merck donates medicines for river blindness to Africa.

Instances of other waterborne sicknesses like river blindness and cholera also would plummet.

Various control programs aim to stop onchocerciasis from being a public health problem.

Work on onchocerciasis has been proceeding for a dozen years or so.

Now onchocerciasis, or river blindness, appears to be under control.

It has been used in the treatment of onchocerciasis.

Millions more may be subject to infection by onchocerciasis in more than 30 countries, he said.

Onchocerciasis is second in the world only to trachoma as an infectious cause of blindness.

A cutaneous condition, it is a localized type of onchocerciasis.

The hovering flies were likely carriers of onchocerciasis (river blindness).

The primary strategy to control onchocerciasis is to interrupt the life cycle of the parasite.

Army service led to academic work on blood products and onchocerciasis (river blindness, a tropical disease).

Repositioning of an existing drug for the neglected tropical disease Onchocerciasis.

One drug that has been proposed for the treatment of onchocerciasis is doxycycline.

It also requires education to address long-held myths about the causes of onchocerciasis.

A vaccine to prevent onchocerciasis infection for cattle is in phase three trials.

The Onchocerciasis life cycle involves transmission via a black fly vector.

The foundation has provided almost the sole support for work in developing a vaccine for onchocerciasis.

In cases of onchocerciasis, another common filarial parasite, the drug is not used.

Reference to your own back issues would have quickly revealed onchocerciasis to be associated with running water with little, if any, pollution.

No vaccine to prevent onchocerciasis infection is available.

About 99% of onchocerciasis cases occur in Africa.

Here he also discovers a foyer of ocular onchocerciasis at the Uéle.

The early investigators of onchocerciasis from 1874-1930 in Africa made no mention at all of concomitant severe eye disease.

Onchocerciasis Control : covering 82% of the population in the usually treated foci.

Onchocerciasis is a neglected tropical disease.

Merck & Co. manufactures the drug and provides it free worldwide for the treatment of onchocerciasis.

He was the first to describe Robles Disease (Onchocerciasis)

The bridge is named after Rodolfo Robles, the Guatemalan physician who first described "Robles Disease" (Onchocercosis).