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Shedding Light on NTDs: Onchocerciasis / River Blindness

June 25, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  As we officially reach the one-month mark of our summer series, “Shedding Light on NTDs”, we hope you are gaining insight and increasing your

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Colombia is First Country to Eliminate River Blindness

August 2, 2013January 25, 2023 Alexandra Thomsen

Colombia has just been confirmed as the first nation to eliminate the neglected tropical disease onchocerciasis, more commonly known as “river blindness,” according to a

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Water Without Worms: Guatemalan Department Ends River Blindness

December 11, 2012January 25, 2023 Jason Hayes

In the Huehuetenango department of Guatemala, Onchocerca volvulus, commonly called river blindness, is no more. According to a recent study in the Journal of Parasitology

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