Good news! Slowly, but surely!
"Last week, the World Health Organization reported that two African countries have defeated a parasite:
In Guinea, public health authorities stamped out sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease carried by the tsetse fly. Sleeping sickness is easily treated early on, but if allowed to progress causes irreversible brain damage and, ultimately, death.
Niger, meanwhile, became the first African country to eliminate river blindness, which, as its name suggests, can make you blind and is spread by flies that breed near rivers. The parasites in this case are long thin worms that burrow around in the sufferer’s skin. ..."
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