link from humaworms site

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=1274328


Using an off-patent drug called paromomycin and funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, OneWorld Health has finished clinical trials in India that cured 94 percent of the patients. It's great progress, but there are a lot of other parasites out there.

For instance, more than 40 million people have been disfigured by elephantiasis. River blindness has blinded more than 250,000. Sleeping sickness, also fatal, is spread by the tsetse fly. And the really big killers are malaria and children's diarrhea.

"The problem with infectious diseases is the bug that you're going after changes -- it mutates, it develops resistance," Hale said. "So you have to keep developing new medicines. And it is that which is not happening."