One of Jimmy Carter’s many passions was working to eradicate diseases around the world. River blindness is one of them. We talk with Dr. Santiago Nicholls about how through the Carter Center, Jimmy ...

When the Carter Center hired Dr. Frank Richards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996, he and Jimmy Carter had a goal: eliminate river blindness from the earth. River ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a devastating disease that has raised public health concerns in sub-Saharan ...

River blindness is a parasitic infection spread by black flies in Africa, Latin America and Yemen. About 20 million people suffer from the disease which causes skin discoloration, rashes and can ...

In the 1980s, the drug company Merck & Co. had begun a large-scale donation program of a drug called Mectizan to treat onchocerciasis, or river blindness, another parasitic disease transmitted by ...

River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a devastating disease that has raised public health concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Yemen. The name “river blindness” originates from ...

From its headwaters in Brazil, the Paraguay River flows hundreds of miles south to where it joins the Parana River to form a ...

Laboratories that test human samples in England would need to report an additional 10 causative agents, not currently notifiable, to UKHSA. These include Norovirus, Tick-borne encephalitis virus ...

The causative pathogens of HBV carriers were similar to those in general patients with abscess. The treatment plan for liver abscesses in the general population can be applied for the HBV carriers.

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