As officially recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO), Saudi Arabia has now eliminated trachoma — the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide — as a public health problem.
Researchers from Sorbonne University in Paris, France, have found a way to give blind people their sight back using optogenetics, a brand new technology that gives hope to millions of patients suffering from impaired vision.
The World Health Organization announced that Myanmar is the latest country to eliminate trachoma, a preventable disease that causes irreversible blindness.
