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Why aren't we curing the world's most curable diseases?

  • Written by Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. Candidate in Microbiology, Harvard University
imageA woman blinded by onchocerciasis, or river blindness, crouches in her hut in northern Ivory Coast. AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju

Once upon a time, the world suffered.

In 1987, 20 million people across the world were plagued by a debilitating, painful and potentially blinding disease called river blindness. This parasitic infection caused pain,...

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