DEL.ICIO.USCarter Center makes strides against river blindness
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, March 30, 2009
An international team of researchers announced Monday that workers from the Carter Center, along with other partners, have stopped transmission of river blindness in Escuintla, a zone in south Guatemala.
“In a few short years, with continued hard work and increased political will, river blindness will never threaten the Americas again,” said Dr. Frank O. Richards of the Carter Center.
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The disease can be found from southern Mexico through northern South America. The center is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies to eradicate river blindness by 2012. Health education and Mecitzan, a drug donated by Merck & Co., are the keys to stopping it. Once the disease is eradicated, the drug no longer has to be administered.
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