New urine dipstick test detects cause of disease that blinds millions

Monday, August 27, 2018 - 15:40 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million people worldwide.

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