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 ...

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, India has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. This debilitating disease used to cause eye problems to millions of people.

An elderly farmer woman receives an eye exam for trachoma in Vietnam — which along with India and Pakistan — eradicated the disease, which causes blindness, in 2024.

In 2012, I went back to Nepal to write more articles, including one about a horrific blinding eye disease called trachoma. In the early 1980s, it affected more than 20% of the population in the ...

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 ...

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 in nine countries. We focus on how Pakistan got rid of trachoma, which can cause blindness.

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