Merck Announces Expansion of World's Largest Donation Program by Adding Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis) to the Mectizan(R) Donation Program In Africa.

PR Newswire | October 22, 1998 | Copyright

- Merck & Co. Inc. program reaching 20 million people in areas with

onchocerciasis, or river blindness;

- Expanded program will also reach Africans at risk for lymphatic

filariasis;

- The World Health Organization estimates that 300 million people in

Africa are at risk of lymphatic filariasis.

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), announced today a major expansion of the program in Africa through which the drug Mectizan(R) (ivermectin, MSD) is donated to treat the parasitic ...

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