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Discover LudwigThe term 'river blindness' is an acceptable term in written English.
The term is used to refer to a tropical disease caused by a parasitic worm, which is spread by black flies living near fast-flowing rivers. You can use this term in a sentence like this: "River blindness, a tropical disease spread by black flies near fast-flowing rivers, is a major public health concern in many parts of the world."
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river blindness
noun
Onchocerciasis.
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River blindness begins with repeated bites from black flies that are common along rivers and streams in tropical areas.
People go blind because they don't have the simple drugs to prevent river blindness.
They include sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, elephantiasis and river blindness.
River blindness: Caused by infection by the nematode worm.
They include lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, schistosomiasis and Chagas disease.
Merck donates medicines for river blindness to Africa.
It was long misdiagnosed as epilepsy or as river blindness.
How many American physicians have diagnosed leprosy, or river blindness, or even malaria?
No, I'm going to do river blindness.' People go: 'Let's look into that.
River blindness was once endemic in much of West Africa and seemed almost hopeless.
Varney N Steward lost his sight after contracting river blindness during Liberia's civil wars.
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