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Milestone Toward Ending River Blindness In The Western Hemisphere By 2012

ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2009) — An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the largest endemic areas in the Western Hemisphere to date to stop the transmission of the parasitic disease.

 

Milestone Toward Ending River Blindness In The Western Hemisphere By 2012

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