River Blindness
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Question: ^_*River blindness?*_^? River blindness, known as onchocereciasis, may happen when a black fly bites and transmits some worm that may fully blind you. Is this treatable, after it infects you fully?
Answer: It's treatable, but not curable at this time.
Question: where was the river blindness' first occurrence? I want to know the place that the river blindness was first found or first occurred.
Answer: No one can know its first occurence. But the microfilaria that causes river blindness was first observed in West Africa in the year 1875 by John O'Neill.
Question: What would you rather swine flu or african river blindness?
Answer: I think id rather risk the flu then be blind for ever.
Question: What is the economic impact of River Blindness on the Sub-African Economy?
Answer: Do you really want an answer ? Or asked this only to enjoy an unanswerable question.
Question: God created many creatures, great and small, but why Onchocerca volvulus, the worm that causes river blindness?
Answer: What about that Caterpillar in Brazil that can cause blood clots.
Question: What are hookworms and river blindness?
Answer: River blindness, or onchoceriasis, is common in West Africa. It is parasite spread by mosquitos and affects the vision. Many people who contract the parasite become blind.
Question: Why don't they treat river blindness by killing the worms?
Answer: The anti-helminths have no effect on this adult worm. Drugs are undergoing clinical trials (moxydectin and doxycycline) that would sterilize or kill the adult worms.
Ivermectin is given in a single dose to kill microfilariae (eggs) and blocks the relaese of new microfilariae (reducing the amount in the skin and eyes.
Question: what is river blindness? and what is the best treatment for it?
Answer: its a parasite mosquito transferred disease,onchocerca volvolus ,the treatment is a drug called ivermectin,u want details and lifecycles prevention just google it
Question: Which organism causes river blindness?
Answer: onchocerca vulvulus
Question: SCHISTOSOMA,nectar americanus,trichinella and river blindness? need virulence factors for microbiology project
Answer: schistosoma constanty changes it's antigenic coat. So the immune system can't keep up.
Don't know about the others.
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