29/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a press release issued in Paris, the US pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) and courier company DHL, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post, announced the signing of a partnership agreement for the cost price delivery of the mectizan medicine (ivermectin) to Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The medicine combats parasites and is used to treat river blindness and other diseases caused by filarial nematodes. In 1987 MSD started donating mectizan and...