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KENILWORTH, N.J.
Since 1987 Merck Has Donated More than Two Billion Treatments of Mectizan to Help Eliminate River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis
KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada,
announced today that the company, together with the Mectizan Donation
Program, is donating $1 million to the END Fund in support of efforts in
Africa to eliminate river blindness, which is also known as
onchocerciasis.
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