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OnchocerciasisOnchocerciasis or river blindness is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness. It is caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic worm that can live for up to fourteen years in the human body.This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. 
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