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CHICAGO — An antibiotic widely used in Africa to treat eyesight-robbing infections seems to help prevent Ethiopian children from dying of other diseases.
A study in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association suggests an unintended benefit from efforts to wipe out trachoma, the world’s leading preventable cause of blindness.
The researchers speculate that the drug, Zithromax, helped prevent deaths from pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, the biggest killers of Ethiopian children.
