2025年1月29日 · Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is transmitted through the bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp.) that breed in fast-flowing rivers and streams, mostly in remote villages located near fertile land where people rely on agriculture.

2024年12月31日 · Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus transmitted by repeated bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp.). These blackflies breed along fast-flowing rivers and streams, close to remote villages located near fertile land where people rely on agriculture.

Although most onchocerciasis occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, the infection also occurs in Yemen and two out of six original endemic countries in Latin America (the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Brazil). In the Africa Region, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP) operated from 1974 to 2002.

In the 1970s, the Onchocerciasis Control Progamme in West Africa (OCP) achieved vector control by weekly aerial spraying of insecticides over fast-flowing rivers and streams. It took more than 14 years to break the life-cycle of the parasite through aerial spraying, combined from 1989 with treatment of eligible populations with ivermectin.

2022年11月18日 · Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is one of the diseases targeted for elimination by WHO in the group of 20 diseases known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The WHO road map on neglected tropical diseases, 2021–2030, developed with extensive global consultation, sets ambitious targets to be attained through 3 strategic shifts. The first is …

2021年11月19日 · Onchocerciasis or river blindness is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus. Onchocerciasis is called river blindness because the blackflies, of the genus Simulium, that transmit the infection, live and breed along rivers and streams in areas where there is fast-moving water and because infection with the parasite can result in …

On 30 January 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO), Member States and partners, launched the Global Onchocerciasis Network for Elimination (GONE) to accelerate progress towards onchocerciasis elimination targets set in the …

2023年11月2日 · More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries in endemic countries, national onchocerciasis elimination committee chairs, experts, researchers, nongovernmental organizations, the donor community and civil society gathered on 1 and 2 November 2023 in Mbour, Senegal, for the first meeting …

2023年11月10日 · The disease is known as onchocerciasis, or river blindness. The WHO Road map on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), 2021–2030,1 identified onchocerciasis as one of the diseases targeted for elimination.

2021年6月9日 · Onchocerciasis is also hypothesized to lead to neurological disorders including epilepsy (Chesnais, 2020), nodding syndrome (Geelhand de Merxem, 2020) and stunted growth. One of the challenges posed by the current diagnostics is the difficulty of comparing epidemiological data obtained with different techniques, i.e. skin biopsies, versus rapid ...