river blindness

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. onchocerciasis.

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river blindness British  

noun

1. another name for onchocerciasis

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Etymology

Origin of river blindness

First recorded in 1950–55

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river blindness

But Jimmy and Roslaynn Carter were first exposed to river blindness growing up surrounded by the crushing poverty of the rural Deep South during the Great Depression.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Several serious, neglected tropical diseases in humans are caused by roundworms, including river blindness, lymphatic elephantiasis and ascariasis.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 18, 2023

He made eliminating Guinea worm one of the Carter Center’s priorities, along with five other preventable diseases: river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and malaria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Two years ago, ivermectin was an obscure drug consigned only to those who had the rare displeasure of contracting parasites like scabies or river blindness.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021

It’s an anti-parasitic used to treat things like river blindness and lice in humans and, quite commonly, worms and other parasites in horses, cows, and dogs.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2021