Beating river blindness, one fly at a time

Yacouba catches a blackflyAfrica is beginning to win its battle against the terrible parasitic river blindness infection, thanks in no small part to the painstaking work of villagers who catch the flies responsible for the disease and send them on for testing.

The story first aired on the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent on Radio 4 on Saturday 4 May – you can listen to it here. Or you can read the article on the BBC’s website here.

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