How to Use river blindness in a Sentence

river blindness

noun

• In people, the drug is used to treat diseases like river blindness and scabies.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
• The best way to prevent river blindness is to avoid being bitten by black flies.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• In the 1980s, Merck developed a treatment for river blindness and opted to give it away.
  — David Gelles, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• In the 1980s, Merck developed a treatment for river blindness, and opted to give it away.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Cholera, lung cancer and river blindness no longer threaten us.
  — Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• The medicine has a good safety profile and is used widely around the world to treat parasitic infections like river blindness.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Doctors use it to treat diseases caused by intestinal worms such as river blindness, as well as head lice and scabies.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Treatments are needed that can cure people with river blindness and are safe to give in areas where both of these diseases are present in Central Africa.
  — Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, STAT, 24 Nov. 2020
• The worm’s larvae can trigger damage in the eyes, leading to river blindness if untreated.
  — Jennifer Abbasi, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2013
• The illness, also known as river blindness, was caused by a parasitic worm and treated with ivermectin.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021
• Ivermectin tablets are approved for use in humans by the FDA to treat some parasitic worms, including intestinal roundworms or those that cause river blindness.
  — Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
• It’s used in humans to treat head lice, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and other ailments.
  — Jake Zuckerman and Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2021
• The drug is available with a prescription to treat head lice, onchocerciasis (river blindness) and other ailments in humans.
  — Jake Zuckerman and Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
• During the first 10 years of the program, ivermectin was donated for use against river blindness (onchocerciasis).
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• In the Together trial, that drug, commonly used against things like river blindness and intestinal roundworms, didn’t keep anyone with Covid out of the hospital any better than a placebo.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
• Fifteen years ago as much as half the population was infected with the worm that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness (see map).
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Ivermectin has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat river blindness, intestinal strongyloidiasis, head lice and rosacea in humans.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2021
• The chimps were infected with hepatitis and river blindness, an eye sickness caused by a parasite, as researchers developed vaccines.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The company’s donation of the medicine to be used to combat a parasitic disease called river blindness is one of the great examples of pharmaceutical philanthropy.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Oct. 2021
• Several years ago, Fletcher and his team had never heard of river blindness and knew very little about neglected tropical diseases in general.
  — Brian Rinker, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018
• Merck has donated four billion doses to prevent river blindness and other diseases in Africa and other places where parasites are common.
  — David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper, WSJ, 28 July 2021
• Until that point, most of his work on outbreaks—malaria, tuberculosis, river blindness—had involved teaming up with national ministries of health.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
• His public health credentials include helping to improve millions of lives with his work to eliminate guinea worm disease and river blindness as executive director of the Carter Center.
  — Brett Murphy, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
• The century-old suramin, currently used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness (onchocerciasis), has also gotten some traction as a potential Covid-19 treatment.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• In the 1970s, the company researched, developed, and distributed a drug that would eradicate river blindness—a debilitating disease that afflicted people in poor regions such as Africa and Latin America.
  — Tima Bansal, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Seasonality is easiest to understand for diseases spread by insects that thrive during rainy seasons, such as African sleeping sickness, chikungunya, dengue, and river blindness.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
• Ivermectin has historically been used to treat diseases such as river blindness or scabies in humans and, in some formulations, to prevent heartworm disease and other infestations in animals.
  — al, 18 Jan. 2022
• In the 1980s it was commercially distributed worldwide for the treatment of parasitic diseases, particularly river blindness.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• Earlier studies showed that ivermectin, developed in the 1980s to fight parasites that cause river blindness and elephantitis, turns the blood of patients deadly to mosquitoes a short time after treatment, reported National Public Radio.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 29 Mar. 2018
• The river blindness medication, ivermectin, kills these baby worms effectively.
  — Brian Rinker, CNN, 17 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024