Ivermectin credited with eliminating river blindness in Plateau and Nasarawa states in Nigeria
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By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews New data indicate that mass treatment with ivermectin-a drug that was a workhorse of tropical medicine long before it emerged as a controversial COVID-19 treatment-has eliminated river blindness transmission in two states in Nigeria, the first Nigerian states to achieve this distinction in a country that has the world's highest burden of the [...]
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