Recent strategies for control and containing the spread of river blindness include:

A) antibiotics to inhibit bacterial endosymbionts within Onchocerca volvulus.

B) antihelmintic drugs such as ivermectin to destroy the larval worms.

C) antiprotozoan drugs such as metronidazole.

D) insecticides to decrease the black fly population.

E) filtering water through nylon sieves to remove Cyclops.


A, B, D

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