Life-cycle of Onchocerca volvulus
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Description: Photographs and information on the parasites that cause onchocerciasis are which are transmitted from human to human through the bites of blackfly vectors.
African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) The parasites that cause onchocerciasis are transmitted from human to human through the bites of blackfly vectors. worms can live for fifteen years in the human body. The male and female worms entwine in nodules in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin. After mating, the female worm releases around 1000 microfilariae larvae a day into the surrounding tissue.
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| Date | created: 1998-06-05 changed: 2007-06-22 |