A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a ...

Scientist Paul Helfrich has studied the T. bryo fish parasite for years and remains fascinated by its life cycle and ...

Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Parasite genetics is the study of the genetic material of parasites, including the distribution, function and evolution of genes and genomes. All genomes are replicated in a temporal order, though ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also known as river blindness — and the fifth worldwide, according to WHO.

An illustration of the parasitic worm that causes river blindness.Credit: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF “This is as hard as anything in the world,” said Professor Tony Kelleher ...

Programmes to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, like river blindness and trachoma (pictured), do more than just restore health - Simon Townsley ...

The main clinical features of patients with intracranial hydatid cysts include raised intracranial pressure, blindness, loss of consciousness, focal neurological deficits and seizures (277, 282).

A blind child is more likely to live in socioeconomic deprivation, to be more frequently hospitalised during childhood and to die in childhood than a child not living with blindness. This update of a ...