Assertion: trachoma | /r/HasProperty | prevalent
Facets:
value: in these rural communities
type: LOCATION
value: in countries
type: LOCATION
value: moderately
type: DEGREE
value: especially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In areas where trachoma is prevalent, infection rates among children under 5 can be 60 percent or more.
text: In areas where trachoma is prevalent, infection rates among children under 5 can be 60 percent or more.
text: Trachoma is an infectious eye disease that causes blindness; it is prevalent in many poor rural communities.
text: In addition, in areas where trachoma is prevalent, children in the toddler range are more likely to get the disease than older children and adults.
text: Trachoma is especially prevalent in countries where it is endemic, where many people have it and can spread it to others.
text: Based on their model, they recommend that in areas where trachoma is moderately prevalent (less than 35% of children with active infection), it should be treated annually, but in hyperendemic areas (more than 50% of children with active infection), it should be treated biannually.
text: Why is trachoma so prevalent in these rural communities?
text: Australia is the only developed country where trachoma is still prevalent and this burden of disease is suffered exclusively in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.