onchocerciasis
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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
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📰 This Word in the News:
Eliminating onchocerciasis: continued political support, new tools and measures are needed to sustain progress
Dec 10, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 10, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO)
Progress towards eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas in 2011: interruption of transmission in Guatemala and Mexico
Aug 17, 2012 World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 17, 2012 World Health Organization (WHO)
BugBitten Circulating nucleic acids for onchocerciasis detection: a diagnostic dead end?
May 8, 2020 BMC blog network
May 8, 2020 BMC blog network
From Africa to the Americas: Dr. Frank Richards Jr. on the Fight to End River Blindness
Feb 28, 2023 Brown's School of Public Health
Feb 28, 2023 Brown's School of Public Health
WHO Onchocerciasis Technical Advisory Subgroup: report of the eighth meeting, Toledo, Spain, 9–12 December 2024
Aug 19, 2025 World Health Organization (WHO)
Aug 19, 2025 World Health Organization (WHO)