NOUN
- infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
How To Use river blindness In A Sentence
- Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
- The parasitic disease ‘river blindness, ‘or onchocerciasis, is also widespread in the south.’
- Also called onchocerciasis, river blindness is caused by a parasitic worm whose larvae are transmitted by the bite of the black fly, which breeds by fast-flowing streams. News24 Top Stories
- REPORTER A: River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lived under the surface of the skin.
- Since a drug was invented to treat river blindness in the 1970s, the disease has declined dramatically. Smithsonian Mag
- The treatment marked the 15th anniversary of Merck & Company's MDP, a campaign that has combatted onchocerciasis, more commonly known as river blindness, through the free supply of the drug to any country that needed it.
- Two of the diseases, onchocerciasis, known as river blindness, and trachoma, a bacterial eye infection, cause blindness. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
- River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is spread by the bites of black flies, which carry the parasite from person to person. Rene Le Berre, who led successful fight against river blindness, dies
- For example, filaria is widespread in the project area, including both river blindness and loa-loa. Chapter 7
- Since a drug was invented to treat river blindness in the 1970s, the disease has declined dramatically. Smithsonian Mag
