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'I Rip Out My Lashes To Ease Pain': Eye Disease Afflicts Ethiopia

Check-ups for trachoma in a village community near Butajira (Credit: AFP)

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind.

A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

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