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▼ NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 869, July 30, 1979 1/24 (4%) onchocerciasis evolutionary leathery disease Dutch
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– Session 869, July 30, 1979 9:05 P.M. Monday

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3. The disease Seth referred to is onchocerciasis, which is caused by a filarial parasite spread by the bite of the blackfly. In his passing reference to it, Seth didn’t mention that besides producing the gruesome leathery skin, onchocerciasis can cause blindness — hence its common name, river blindness. This most serious affliction appears to be centered in West Africa, and infects many millions of people there. Four centuries ago, it was carried to the Western Hemisphere by slaves, and is now found in certain areas of Mexico, south to Brazil.

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