2) Dream of Dr. Horacio Figueroa
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On 10th of January 1970, I flew to Guatemala leaving New Orleans on board a TACA aircraft. This was my first trip to Guatemala C.A. expecting to visit Dr. Horacio Figueroa and endemic areas of onchocerciasis in there. During my stay in his house, he showed me a plantation called Panajabal located in the highland far from the capital, a paradise of onchocerciasis according to him, where almost all the villagers were infected. As is seen in the picture which I took at that time, a blind man was walking led by his grandson with a stick. This seen really blew me away! It was the first time that I saw the figure of “onchocerciasis or river blindness” as a parasitologist and determined the academic course of mine since that moment.
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