river blindness - 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

onchocerciasis

infestation - the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites

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infestation onchocerciasis			A recent study found treatment could lead to elimination of river blindness and related skin infections, which affect more than 37 million people worldwide, most of them in poor, rural African communities. Eliminating river blindness 'feasible' by Currie, Donya / The Nation's Health Twenty-two years ago, Merck started giving away a drug to treat river blindness, a devastating infectious disease endemic to certain countries in Africa and Latin America. Will Pfizer's Giveaway Drugs Polish Its Public Image? by Arlene Weintraub / BusinessWeek A STUDY by the UN's health body has shown that the disease onchocerciasis - also known as river blindness - could be wiped out using drugs. River blindness cure by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			ritualism ritualist ritualistic ritualize ritually Ritz ritzy rivage rival Rivaless Rivality rivalrous rivalry Rivalship rive Rivel riven river River Acheron River Adige River Aire River Arno River Avon river basin river birch river blindness river boat river bottom river boulder River Cam River chub River Cocytus river cooter River crab river dolphin River dragon River driver River duck river estuary river fish river fishing River god river gum river head River herring River hog river horse River jack River Kasai River Lethe river limpet			River Basin Center River Basin Development Authority River Basin Development Planning and Management River Basin District Liaison Panels River Basin Information System River Basin Management Group River Basin Management Plan River Basin Management Programme River Basin Management Society River Basin Organization River Basin Working Group River basins River basins River Bathymetry Toolkit River Beas River Bed Power House River Bend Career and Technical Center River Bend Education District River Bend Library System River Bend Middle School River Bend Station River Benue River bifurcation river birch River blackfish River blackfish river blindness River Bluffs Audubon Society River Bluffs Regional Library River Bluffs Regional Library Savannah Branch River Blyth Boating Association river boat river boat river bottom river bottom River Bottom Sucker Fish river boulder River Brahmaputra River Brahmaputra river breathing River Brethren River Bridge Club River Bug River Buh river buoy river buttercup River Cam River canyon River canyon River Capital Group, Inc. River capture River Carp River Carp River Carp River Carp River Cauvery River Charente

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