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River blindness: shifting from prevention to surveillance and elimination
12 November 2017
Enjoy this news article covering how the world is benefiting from years of painstaking work, mainly of villagers and volunteers, to eliminate river blindness (onchocerciasis), a parasitic infection transmitted by repeated bites of the black fly which breeds in fast-flowing waters. WHO, November 12, 2017.