Kill or Cure - River Blindness - Trailer
While mosquito-borne diseases like malaria emerge from stagnant ponds and puddles, it is fast-running water, in conjunction with the blood-sucking black fly, that creates a breeding ground for river blindness. Black flies carry a microscopic nematode larva that, thanks to a penny-sized nodule under the skin, can be easily detected after it has grown and reproduced inside a human host, but not so easily defeated. This program visits an isolated village in Cameroon where river blindness has struck again and again. Despite the tragedy, the community is becoming a model for a program that distributes and tracks compliance with Mectizan, a drug that kills the young worms but must be taken for years.
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River Blindness is part of the multiple documentary series KILL OR CURE. All the films in this series are on the SWPictures website.
Kill or Cure looks at diseases that are no threat in developed nations, but claim tens of millions of lives every year in developing countries. Modern, effective treatments targeting affluent westerners are too expensive for the world’s poor. Old drugs are cheap but resistance is spreading very fast. In some cases the only drugs available kill up to one in 10 of the patients who take them. Kill or Cure covers the hunt for effective and affordable treatments for populations earning less than a few dollars a day.