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Bayer, DNDi sign first agreement to develop new oral treatment for onchocerciasis
2014-12-10 14:44:18| Chemicals - Topix.net
Bayer HealthCare and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative have signed an agreement under which Bayer will provide the active ingredient emodepside to support DNDi in its effort to develop a new oral drug to treat river blindness . The world's second leading infectious cause of blindness, river blindness is a neglected tropical disease caused by a filarial worm.
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