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FURTHER PROGRESS MADE TOWARDS ELIMINATING BLINDING EYE DISEASE -- UN REPORTS

April 11, 2006

With the estimated number of people affected by the infectious eye disease, blinding trachoma, dropping from 360 million people to 80 million over the past 21 years, several more countries are on track to eliminate the scourge, the United Nations health agency announced today.
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