Ongoing elimination efforts have altered the global distribution of Onchocerca volvulus, the agent of river blindness, and further population restructuring is expected as efforts continue. Therefore, ...

Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new report suggests that blackflies infected ...

Onchocerciasis is a parasitic infection brings about skin lesions and severe eye damage and that can lead to irreversible blindness. Fertility-change associated genetic selection in parasite ...

More than 21 million people in Africa are infected with the nematode Onchocerca volvulus, the cause of river blindness. Around one in ten of those affected goes blind. Parasitologists at the ...

Onchocerciasis is an infectious disease that can cause blindness and permanent skin damage. The source of onchocerciasis is a parasitic worm called Onchocerca volvulus. A person can contract this ...

River blindness is a common chronic infectious neglected disease that blights many communities near water in remote areas of the Amazon basin in South America and in Africa. It is caused by the worm ...

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