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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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