How to Use river blindness in a Sentence

river blindness

noun
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  • In people, the drug is used to treat diseases like river blindness and scabies.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The best way to prevent river blindness is to avoid being bitten by black flies.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In the 1980s, Merck developed a treatment for river blindness and opted to give it away.
    — David Gelles, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • In the 1980s, Merck developed a treatment for river blindness, and opted to give it away.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Cholera, lung cancer and river blindness no longer threaten us.
    — Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The medicine has a good safety profile and is used widely around the world to treat parasitic infections like river blindness.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Doctors use it to treat diseases caused by intestinal worms such as river blindness, as well as head lice and scabies.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Treatments are needed that can cure people with river blindness and are safe to give in areas where both of these diseases are present in Central Africa.
    — Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, STAT, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The worm’s larvae can trigger damage in the eyes, leading to river blindness if untreated.
    — Jennifer Abbasi, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2013
  • The illness, also known as river blindness, was caused by a parasitic worm and treated with ivermectin.
    — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Ivermectin tablets are approved for use in humans by the FDA to treat some parasitic worms, including intestinal roundworms or those that cause river blindness.
    — Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • It’s used in humans to treat head lice, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and other ailments.
    — Jake Zuckerman and Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The drug is available with a prescription to treat head lice, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and other ailments in humans.
    — Jake Zuckerman and Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
  • During the first 10 years of the program, ivermectin was donated for use against river blindness (onchocerciasis).
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • In the Together trial, that drug, commonly used against things like river blindness and intestinal roundworms, didn’t keep anyone with Covid out of the hospital any better than a placebo.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Fifteen years ago as much as half the population was infected with the worm that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness (see map).
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • Ivermectin has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat river blindness, intestinal strongyloidiasis, head lice and rosacea in humans.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The chimps were infected with hepatitis and river blindness, an eye sickness caused by a parasite, as researchers developed vaccines.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The company’s donation of the medicine to be used to combat a parasitic disease called river blindness is one of the great examples of pharmaceutical philanthropy.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Several years ago, Fletcher and his team had never heard of river blindness and knew very little about neglected tropical diseases in general.
    — Brian Rinker, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Merck has donated four billion doses to prevent river blindness and other diseases in Africa and other places where parasites are common.
    — David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper, WSJ, 28 July 2021
  • Until that point, most of his work on outbreaks—malaria, tuberculosis, river blindness—had involved teaming up with national ministries of health.
    — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • His public health credentials include helping to improve millions of lives with his work to eliminate guinea worm disease and river blindness as executive director of the Carter Center.
    — Brett Murphy, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The century-old suramin, currently used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness (onchocerciasis), has also gotten some traction as a potential Covid-19 treatment.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • In the 1970s, the company researched, developed, and distributed a drug that would eradicate river blindness—a debilitating disease that afflicted people in poor regions such as Africa and Latin America.
    — Tima Bansal, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Seasonality is easiest to understand for diseases spread by insects that thrive during rainy seasons, such as African sleeping sickness, chikungunya, dengue, and river blindness.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Ivermectin has historically been used to treat diseases such as river blindness or scabies in humans and, in some formulations, to prevent heartworm disease and other infestations in animals.
    — al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In the 1980s it was commercially distributed worldwide for the treatment of parasitic diseases, particularly river blindness.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Earlier studies showed that ivermectin, developed in the 1980s to fight parasites that cause river blindness and elephantitis, turns the blood of patients deadly to mosquitoes a short time after treatment, reported National Public Radio.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The river blindness medication, ivermectin, kills these baby worms effectively.
    — Brian Rinker, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018

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