| 1. | An estimated 540 million people are at risk of developing trachoma.
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| 2. | Trachoma was once a scourge in the United States and Europe.
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| 3. | The region was plagued by widespread diseases including trachoma and typhus.
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| 4. | Active trachoma will often be irritating and have a watery discharge.
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| 5. | Health education also resulted in reductions of active trachoma when implemented.
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| 6. | Blindness due to trachoma has been eliminated from the United States.
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| 7. | Only cataracts cause more cases of blindness than trachoma, Cook said.
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| 8. | Trachoma begins with an inflammation of the upper eyelid that causes scarring.
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| 9. | Morocco hopes to eliminate trachoma by the end of 2005.
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| 10. | Trachoma is caused by the spread of the Chlamydia bacterium.
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