Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new report suggests that blackflies infected ...
More than 21 million people in Africa are infected with the nematode Onchocerca volvulus, the cause of river blindness. Around one in ten of those affected goes blind. Parasitologists at the ...
La oncocercosis o “ceguera de los ríos” alertó a las comunidades más desprotegidas de Oaxaca y Chiapas durante varias décadas. Este parásito se aprovechó de las pésimas condiciones de vida en la ...
En un momento como el actual, en el que la pandemia de COVID-19 ha puesto sobre la mesa la imperante necesidad de controlar a los agentes infecciosos que, en cualquier momento, pueden dar el salto de ...
Despite a fierce civil war, scientists led a 14-year grassroots campaign that has eradicated a parasitic disease from northern Sudan.
Onchocerciasis is an infectious disease that can cause blindness and permanent skin damage. The source of onchocerciasis is a parasitic worm called Onchocerca volvulus. A person can contract this ...
Ongoing elimination efforts have altered the global distribution of Onchocerca volvulus, the agent of river blindness, and further population restructuring is expected as efforts continue. Therefore, ...
A cien años de que el científico guatemalteco Rodolfo Robles Valverde (1878-1939) descubriera la oncocercosis en América, una feliz coincidencia se conmemora este 2015, con la entrega de la ...
Plasma samples were collected as part of a randomised community-based trial registered with the current controlled trials registry (trial registry no. ISRCTN48118452) 42. The trial experimental ...
Hace una década, un hito histórico transformó el destino de miles de familias en las comunidades cafetaleras del sur de México. Hoy, en 2025, el país celebra con orgullo diez años libre de ...
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