Trachoma is the leading infectious cause ... leading to lack of hygiene such as unclean faces and hands that help spread the diseases, and eye-seeking flies. In areas where the disease is active ...

Use of the antibiotic azithromycin to treat trachoma in Vietnam resulted in an increase in the risk of reinfections, according to a study in the Sept. 27 issue of JAMA. Use of the antibiotic ...

Trachoma, a bacterial infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, has been a leading cause of blindness worldwide. This infectious disease primarily affects the eyes, leading to roughening of the ...

One towel sometimes does for three or four, and they wipe out their eyes first of all. If one of the four has trachoma the disease is very likely to be communicated to the others. "We had no ...

What does it take to wipe out a human disease ... clearing discharge from the nose or eye that might contain the bacteria. But, in Pakistan, as the trachoma elimination teams started building ...

In many countries of the world including India, controlling the serious eye disease trachoma remained a challenge. However, now the eye disease called trachoma has been completely eradicated in India.

Excellent news: #India has eliminated #trachoma, a debilitating disease which previously afflicted ... supply and can spread by contact with the eye, nose or throat secretions of a person ...

Sun-Times reporter Amy Yee interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and she writes about his success in fighting the blinding eye disease trachoma. Niranjan Shrestha/AP Share In April 2008 ...

A significant milestone, this reaffirms the country’s commitment to eye health, disease prevention, and universal health coverage," Ministry of Health has tweeted. All about trachoma Trachoma is ...

In 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease ... eye, and he is in pain. That was a miserable situation. EMANUEL: Miserable because they had a condition called ...