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In Sanaboro, Guinea, skin is snipped for microscopic examination to determine the degree of parasite infestation.

Human bait is used to capture black flies, the parasite which causes the River Blindness.

Elders of the village of Sikoroni, Mali are led by younger members of their families.

A weary Dr. Guiseppe de Solo faces the villagers to distribute invermectin in Sanaboro, Guinea.

The meeting hut of chief Sebow Diabite where eight of the fourteen gathered are blind. Mali.

Dr. Guiseppe de Sole, Chief of epidemology for the Onchoceriasis Control Program, relaxes with villagers in Moribedou, Mali.

Skin is snipped from a fearful boy for microscopic examination to determine the degree of parasite infection, in Sananboro, Guinea.

Women bathe and wash in the river where the black fly breeds.

In Sikoroni, Mali, the blind elders of the village are led by their grandchildren.

An elderly grandfather of the Malinke tribe in Morigbedou, Guinea.