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A few drugs have been used for treating river blindness, but none so far has proved to be the answer to curing onchocerciasis and eradicating this parasitic disease.

Merck and Co. Inc., a large pharmaceutical company set a precedent by donating a drug to treat millions suffering from the onchocerciasis, or river blindness.

River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lives under the skin - blindness is just one of the symptoms of this devastating human parasite.

Travellers to remote and faraway destinations beware! A bizarre variety of diseases such as sleeping sickness and buruli ulcers are commonplace in third world countries.