...appears to stop infections that cause trachoma, the world's leading preventable cause...England Journal of Medicine. Worldwide, trachoma infects 84 million people in 55 nations...Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Trachoma is caused by the microorganism chlamydia...

...organization leading the fight against trachoma-related blindness said it is "enthusiastic...antibiotic Zithromax to the International Trachoma Initiative to treat sufferers in nine...promising." Over the past century, trachoma was eliminated in many countries, including...