Infested

It’s the second episode of Infested! Let’s dive into an insect everyone loves to hate and a disease that will make your skin crawl. Yep,  we are talking about pesky blackflies and the almost-eradicated disease they transmit: River blindness! Buckle in for all the entomology & vector-borne disease goodness along with a global health tale showing the value of vector control and multinational cooperation. Women for Women International Books  Comstock, J. H. (1949). An introduction to entomology. Retrieved from http://archive.org/details/introductiontoen1949coms Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Boussinesq, M. (2018). A new powerful drug to combat river blindness - The Lancet. The Lancet, 392(10154), 1170–1172. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30101-6 Hall, L. R., & Pearlman, E. (1999). Pathogenesis of Onchocercal Keratitis (River Blindness). Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 12(3), 445–453. Lamberton, P. H. L., Cheke, R. A., Walker, M., Winskill, P., Crainey, J. L., Boakye, D. A., … Basañez, M.-G. (2016).