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Drug Shows Promise against River Blindness
Feb. 9, 2010
Reuters
Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, U.S. researchers said.
Transmitted by blackflies breeding along fast-flowing tropical waterways, river blindness is an eye and skin disease caused by the filaria worm, which infects more than 37 million people in Africa, Central and South America and Yemen.
The researchers said closantel, used to fight liver fluke in cattle and sheep, showed promise at disrupting the life cycle of the filaria worm.
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contributed by Winnie Mutch on 9 February 2010
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