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The onchocerciasis parasite showing signs of resistance

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Health - Cameroon, Ghana

January 2008

Onchocerciasis or river blindness is a parasitic infection caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a nematode worm transmitted to humans by black flies of the Simulium genus. The parasite brings about skin lesions and severe eye damage that might lead to irreversible blindness. Since the end of the ...

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