Eliminating River Blindness

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The parasitic worm onchocerciasis carries uses a bacterial cloaking device to colonize the human body, causing tremendous suffering and even blindness. Luckily, the Carter Center is waging a campaign against the parasite. Tune in to learn more.

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1:44.7	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Julie Douglas.
1:48.8	And you know, Julie, we live in a, we have it pretty good, you know. We have access to clean water.
1:54.5	We live in a relatively parasite free environment. I mean, we have a parasite.
2:00.6	Yeah. They're inevitable to a certain degree. But when you really start looking around
2:06.3	at some of the problems that are dealt with in some of the more developing parts of the world,
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