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Guatemalan Children Celebrate End of River Blindness

Guatemalan children celebrate the end of river blindness in a song about Mectizan®, a drug donated to The Carter Center by Merck & Co., Inc. Mectizan® is distributed twice per year in affected communities in an effort to eradicate river blindness in Latin America.

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