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Onchocerciasis - Onchocerciasis or river blindness is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness. It is caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic worm that can live for up to fourteen years in the human body.
Ivermectin - Ivermectin is a anti-parasite medication and is effective against most common intestinal worms (except tapeworms), most mites, and some lice. While normally used to treat animals, it is also prescribed to humans to treat infections of Strongyloides stercoralis and onchocerciasis (river blindness).
Wolbachia - ... a type of inherited bacterium that infects arthropod species, including a high proportion of all insects. Outside of Insecta, Wolbachia infects a variety of isopod species, spiders, mites, and many species of filarial nematodes (a type of parasitic worm), including those causing Onchocerciasis (i.
Suramin - Suramin is a medicinal drug developed by Oskar Dressel of Bayer, Germany in 1916. It is used for treatment of human sleeping sickness, onchocerciasis and other diseases caused by trypanosomes and worms.
WHO/OMS: Onchocerciasis - Factsheets, programs, press releases, and research.
BioMed Central: Onchocerciasis - Full text article on treatment of the disease, including the use of tetracyclines to treat the rickettsia-like endosymbiont (Wolbachia) bacteria in the worms.
CDC Travelers' Health Information on Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) - Brief information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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