Eye Protection: Antibiotic knocks back blinding disease

摘要

Medicating an entire village twice a year can hamper a scourge that has blinded millions of people in developing countries, a study in Ethiopia shows. The bacterial eye disease trachoma was wiped out in the United States and much of the industrialized world around the mid-20th century, thanks to improved hygiene, sanitation, and antibiotics. But the disease remains a problem in parts of Africa and Asia.