Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Onchocerciasis – Guatemala (02): eradication
PRO/EDR> Onchocerciasis – Guatemala (02): eradication
River Blindness -- GuatemalaOnly 1 focus of onchocerciasis (river blindness) persists in the Americas, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela. The disease is still present in 31 African countries and Yemen.A hundred years after Guatemalan ophthalmologist Rodolfo Robles established the causal relationship between onchocerciasis and blindness, Guatemala has received official verification from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the country has eliminated this parasitic infection, a disease Read more [...]
