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- 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
How To Use river blindness In A Sentence
- He wanted to know what was wrong with the six-year-old girl with opaque corneas (probably from the highly prevalent infection onchocerciasis causing ‘river blindness’).
- The Director of Eye Health at South Sudan's health ministry, Ali Yousif Ngor, oversees the South Sudan part of an Africa-wide attempt to combat river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis (O. V). Global Issues News Headlines
- Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies. Parasite Rex
- Agricultural activities occur but the area has been less modified by this due mainly to the presence of the blackfly Simulium sp. which causes river blindness and has tended to discourage settlement and encroachment. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
- They would learn that a significant number of other crippling and killing diseases, including African river blindness, schistosomiasis, trauchoma, lymphatic filariasis, hookworm, ascariasis, and trichuriasis, could be brought under control for well under $2 per American citizen per year, and perhaps just $1 per American citizen! How Aid Can Work
- In addition, USAID is supporting efforts to eliminate two other NTDs in the Western Hemisphere - lymphatic filariasis and river blindness. Peter Hotez: Clinton-Sebelius-Obama Apologies for Guatemala Are Just the First Step
- Also known as onchocerciasis, river blindness affects more than 17 million people worldwide, particularly in rural Africa. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- One is Onchocerca volvulus, the worm that travels in black flies and causes river blindness. Parasite Rex
- Since their larvae are aquatic, black flies tend to stay around water, and the disease has thus earned the name river blindness. Parasite Rex
- The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis. Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
