river blindness

For example, the river blindness control programme began as a vertical programme, but eventually developed the community-directed approach for drug distribution.

例如，河盲症控制规划一开始是纵向规划，但最后发展成为以社区为方向的药物分配办法。

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reporter b: river blindness can be prevented with drugs and by killing off the blackfly.

记者B：尽管通过药物以及捕杀黑蝇的方法能够预防河盲的传播，许多家庭仍然决定一起迁离河边。

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A clinical trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa.

盘尾丝虫病或者河盲症是整个非洲存在的一个主要致盲性传染病，一种可以用来消灭该病的新药目前在3个非洲国家进入临床试验。

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The current treatment for river blindness is the drug ivermectin, which kills larval parasites but not the adult worms.

目前治疗盘尾丝虫病的手段是使用一种叫做伊维菌素（ivermectin）的药物，它杀死幼虫，但是对成虫无效。

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Another one is called trachoma, or river blindness.

另外一种疾病是沙眼，也叫做河盲。

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dramatically reduced the scourge of river blindness (onchocerciasis);

大大减轻了河盲症（盘尾丝虫病）祸害；

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The findings suggest that it could be possible to develop a vaccine that protects people against river blindness using a similar approach, though the scientists point out that more research is needed.

这项发现表明，用类似的手段或许可能开发出人用盘尾丝虫病疫苗，不过科学家指出这还需要进行更多的研究。

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Dramatically reduced the scourge of river blindness ( onchocerciasis);

大大减轻了河盲症（盘尾丝虫病）祸害；

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The campaign to eliminate river blindness began as the most vertical programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides out of the sky.

根除河盲症运动开始时是可以想象的最纵向的规划：直升飞机从空中投撒杀虫剂。

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river blindness (onchocerciasis) has been eliminated as a public health problem.

河盲症（盘尾丝虫病）作为一公共卫生问题现已被消灭。

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