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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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). …

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 …

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

2023年11月2日 · More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries in endemic countries, national onchocerciasis elimination …

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 …

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 …