River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a devastating disease that has raised public health concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Yemen. The name “river blindness” originates from the ...

Frank Richards, senior advisor at the Carter Center, a health advocacy organization, spoke on the history and spread of river blindness and the transatlantic slave trade at the annual School of Public ...

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The world's first vaccine for a disease that causes misery for millions in Africa could be tested within five years. Researchers have taken a major step towards developing a vaccine against river ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A drug normally prescribed to pets has raised hopes that river blindness, an infectious disease that threatens 100 million people, can finally be wiped out, the World Health ...

New research shows that it's possible to end the practice of using people as 'human bait' to catch and test the blackflies that spread river blindness (onchocerciasis). The study by international ...

Rene Le Berre, 78, a French entomologist who helped save millions of Africans from contracting river blindness, a vicious and preventable condition that mostly affects the poor, died Dec. 6 in ...

Outside the main entrance of World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva stands a bronze statue of an African boy walking ahead of his blinded father, guiding him with a long stick they both ...