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Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas

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Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas

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WHO publishes Colombia river blindness verification

📅 6 September 2013

A dated epidemiological report describes verification that onchocerciasis transmission had ended in Colombia.

Colombian communities help stop river blindness

📅 6 September 2013

Years of treatment with ivermectin and surveillance preceded the first national verification.

A worm infection loses its foothold

📅 6 September 2013

Onchocerciasis, carried by black flies, can cause skin disease and loss of vision.

A 2013 report documents a national first

📅 6 September 2013

The date is the publication of WHO’s verification report, not the day the last person was treated.