561. One infectious eye disease alone - trachoma - has left some two million sufferers blind around the world, like this old man at an eye clinic in Burma. The answer to this major public health problem is prevention-Before it is too lateto effect a cure Subject(s): World Health Organization
562. The saga of trachoma is a sad tale of dirt, dust, warm climates and flies Subject(s): ChildWorld Health Organization
563. Two members of the pupils' "Health Committee" in an Egyptian school. They are preparing the antseptics and absorbant cotton for the anti-trachoma treatment Subject(s): ChildHealth EducationHealth PromotionWorld Health Organization.
565. A preventable disease - river blindness - cost this man his sight Subject(s): World Health Organization
566. The fixed-wing aeroplane can make accurate insecticide drops at 60 mph over open stretches of river Subject(s): AircraftWorld Health Organization
567. A pest that causes all the trouble. A close-up of the blackfly, Simulium damnosum, feeding on human blood Subject(s): World Health Organization
568. The dull patch in a victim's eye shows where the parasitic worm transmitted by the black-fly's bite has caused irreparable damage. The only real answer to onchocerciasis is to wipe out the fly wherever there are human settlements Subject(s): World Health Organization
569. The face of desperation. River blindness has robbed this west African not merely of his sight but much of his earning power at an age when he should have been making his greatest contribution to the community Subject(s): World Health Organization
570. This man being led through a village in Upper Volta is blind as a result of river blindness - onchocerciasis - and nearly 60 per cent of the people in his village suffer from this disease Subject(s): ChildWorld Health Organization