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The disease is the cause of decreased vision in 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are completely blind. [2] Trachoma is a public health problem in 42 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Central and South America. [7] There are 136.9 million people at risk. [2] It results in US$8 billion of economic losses a year. [2]
Arlt's line is a characteristic finding of trachoma, an infection of the eye caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. [2] The line runs horizontally, parallel to eyelid, and is found at the junction of the anterior one third and posterior two thirds of the conjunctiva.
About 84 million worldwide develop C. trachomatis eye infections and 8 million are blinded as a result of the infection. [9] Trachoma is the primary source of infectious blindness in some parts of rural Africa and Asia and is a neglected tropical disease that has been targeted by the World Health Organization for elimination by 2020. [29]
Inspired by the missionary ophthalmologist Fr Frank Flynn, [8] he became especially concerned with the high number of Aboriginal people who had eye disorders, particularly trachoma, an eye disease not found elsewhere in the developed world. These visits inspired his life's mission to advocate for better access to eye health and living ...
Types include sympathetic ophthalmia (inflammation of both eyes following trauma to one eye), gonococcal ophthalmia, trachoma or "Egyptian" ophthalmia, ophthalmia neonatorum (a conjunctivitis [3] of the newborn due to either of the two previous pathogens), photophthalmia and actinic conjunctivitis (inflammation resulting from prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays), and others.
Expanding its public health mission, the center has supplied training, equipment and medicines that helped 22 countries eliminate at least one disease within their borders. Mali became the latest in May 2023 when the WHO confirmed it had ended trachoma, a blinding eye infection.
At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. [2] She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Soon after graduation at age 20, she became a teacher to Keller. [2]
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...