THE FIGHT AGAINST TRACHOMA; What the Department of Health Has Done in Stamping Out the Disease Among Children of the Public Schools. Share full article Sept. 11, 1904 ...

It’s mostly women and girls who suffer from the disease, says Kelly Callahan, the director of the Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program. “Women are the caretakers of the children,” she ...

Trachoma easily spreads from one child to another through infected eye and nose secretions. A person may have up to 40 episodes of reinfection during childhood.