Similar words: blindness, kindness, unkindness, grandness, fondness, blandness, soundness, colour-blind. Meaning: n. infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America.
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1. Even less money would be needed to counter river blindness, which is still the scourge of millions.
2. Another one is called trachoma, or river blindness.
3. For example, the river blindness control programme began as a vertical programme, but eventually developed the community-directed approach for drug distribution.
4. The father is blind, from a disease called river blindness, which is transmitted by black flies, and cannot cultivate the fields.Sentencedict
5. The campaign to eliminate river blindness began as the most vertical programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides out of the sky.
6. REPORTER A: River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lived under the surface of the skin.
7. This affects their ability to grow crops making river blindness a problem for development as well as health.
8. Bacteria that cause river blindness and elephantitis in people, as well as heart worms in dogs, lead to bigger egg batches in infected insects.
9. The current treatment for river blindness is the drug ivermectin, which kills larval parasites but not the adult worms.
10. River blindness (onchocerciasis) has been eliminated as a public health problem.
11. River blindness has been eliminated as a public health problem, and guinea worm control efforts have resulted in a 97% reduction in cases since 1986.
12. Just ￡10 in sponsorship money will protect ten people from river blindness for a year.
13. But before we talk more about it for today's health check health minute, here's everything you need to know about river blindness.
14. Merck, which produces ivermectin under the brand name Mectizan, provides it for free to treat river blindness and elephantiasis; the company has pledged to do so for as long as it's needed.
15. A clinical trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa.
16. But in some places, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, families have moved away from rivers because they fear catching river blindness.
17. A study published this month has raised hopes of developing a vaccine against river blindness (onchocerciasis) — a major disease in West and Central Africa as well as parts of Latin America.
18. A drug already widely used in massive campaigns to help control two parasitic diseases, river blindness and elephantiasis, could also drive down malaria, a new study has found.
19. The findings suggest that it could be possible to develop a vaccine that protects people against river blindness using a similar approach, though the scientists point out that more research is needed.
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