Ongoing elimination efforts have altered the global distribution of Onchocerca volvulus, the agent of river blindness, and further population restructuring is expected as efforts continue. Therefore, ...

Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new report suggests that blackflies infected ...

image: The parasite that causes river blindness infects about 37 million people in parts of Africa and Latin America, causing blindness and other major eye and skin diseases in about 5 million of them ...

Moxidectin, a macrocyclic lactone, is an anthelmintic drug that selectively binds to the parasite's glutamate-gated chloride ion channels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

Recent reports of patients failing to respond to ivermectin, the standard drug for treating river blindness (onchocerciasis), have suggested the emergence of drug-resistant Onchocerca volvulus (the ...

An adult black fly with the parasite Onchocerca volvulus coming out of the insect’s antenna. United States Department of Agriculture, CC BY In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America, there is a ...

Scientists have for the first time fully sequenced the genome of onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic worm that causes river blindness. This has allowed them to identify a number of proteins that could ...