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| Reference #: | 1,116 |
| Submit Date: | 20 Aug 2007 |
| Browse Category: | river blindness |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | ivermectin drugs |
| You can buy this remedy at: | drug store |
| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/EDLARIBH6.DTL&hw=river+blindness&sn=001&sc=1000 |
| More Links about this Remedy: | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/EDLARIBH6.DTL&hw=river+blindness&sn=001&sc=1000 |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 5,598 |
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| Typical Dosage: | unknown |
| Dosage should be related to weight: | unknown |
| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
| Maximum dosages in relation to side effects and serious side effects: | unknown |
| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
| Foods that provide the nutrient recommended as a remedy (or reference giving same): | unknown |
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| Total # reviewers: | 0 |
| Average Rating: | 0.00 |
| Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
| No Side Effects: | 0.00 |
| Ease of Use: | 0.00 |
| Effective after long term use: | 0.00 |
| Cost Effectiveness: | 0.00 |
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Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/EDLARIBH6.DTL&hw=river+blindness&sn=001&sc=1000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_blindness Onchocerciasis is caused by a round worm that is transmitted among humans by black flies. The fly's descriptive name, Simulium damnosum, reflects its annoying and painful biting habits. The disease occurs in Africa and Latin America but more than 99 percent of the cases occur in West Africa. The disease is treated in the body by ivermectin drugs and application of insecticides to the flies habitat. The control of one of these diseases, onchocerciasis or river blindness, in West Africa is a true success story for a continent where reports of success stories are typically in short supply. In the 1970s, as many as 30 percent of the villagers living along the fertile rivers in West Africa would go blind from this disease. People expected that blindness was part of their normal life cycle. The Onchocerciasis Control Program, established in 1974 and led by the World Health Organization of the United Nations, has controlled this disease in 11 West African countries has controlled the spread of this disease in 11 countries in West Africa. 40 million people have been protected from river blindness and an estimated 600,000 cases of blindness have been prevented in the 11 countries treated; 60 million acres of arable land in previously infected river valleys has been open to resettlement and cultivation; and food for an estimated 17 million people are now being grown. This was achieved for a cost of about $12 per person protected |
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