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River blindness spreads in Africa and beyond
Western Africa hosts river blindness from Simulium damnosum, affecting an estimated one million people with 70 000 blind. WHO launched a 20 year helicopter spraying program using Abate in the Volta basin starting December 12, 1974, as a targeted but costly control method with no better option yet. The disease also exists in Yemen and parts of the Americas due to historic slave trade.
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