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river blindness
Society: ACS Main Category: Chemical Sub Category: Medical Era: DateCreated: 1987 Merck & Co., Inc. Rockville State: MD Zip: Country: USA Website: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/ivermectin-mectizan.html Creator: Merck Research Labs

The story is so improbable it defies belief: a soil sample from Japan stops suffering in Africa. It starts when a scientist discovers a lowly bacterium near a golf course outside Tokyo. A team of scientists in the United States finds that the bacterium produces compounds that impede the activity of nematode worms. It is developed into a drug that wards off parasites in countless pets and farm animals, averting billions of dollars in losses worldwide.

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2016
Image Credit: Courtesy Wikicommons/현태웅 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Image Caption: A young man affected by onchocerciasis - river blindness Era_date_from:
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river blindness

The story is so improbable it defies belief: a soil sample from Japan stops suffering in Africa. It starts when a scientist discovers a lowly bacterium near a golf course outside Tokyo. A team of scientists in the United States finds that the bacterium produces compounds that impede the activity…

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