Ọrịa Elephantịasis nke a na-akpọkwa 'Lymphatic Filariasis' bụ otu ọrịa na-enye nsogbu na mpaghara Afrịka nakwa Asia. Ndị mmadụ na-eche na ọrịa bụ ọgwụ a gwọrọ agwọ na-ebute ya, mana nnyocha sayensị ...

A rare condition called elephantiasis, which tends to strike people in tropical parts of the world, was long thought to occur due to a parasitic infection. But a new study shows that the condition can ...

YANGON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar health authorities is projecting to continue to launch anti-elephantiasis campaign in the country this year as a follow-up of last year, Myanmar News Agency ...

NAIROBI, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Thursday announced an elaborate plan to eliminate trachoma, elephantiasis, mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis. Sicily Kariuki, the Cabinet ...

Elephantiasis is caused by infection with the filarial worm, which is transmitted to humans by the mosquito and lives in the human lymphatic system. The disease is typically characterized by the ...

A Brazilian man with elephantiasis, a rare condition in which people's limbs become discolored and swell to enormous sizes, was recently featured on the popular Animal Planet show "River Monsters," ...

Haiti has finally carried out a nationwide campaign to get rid of the parasitic worms that cause elephantiasis. Haiti has waged other campaigns against the condition, characterized by severe ...

More than 300 persons in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono region have been infected with, Dr Vera Serwaa Opoku, Postdoctoral fellow at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) has said .

Elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis, is an infection that can cause swelling, most often in the legs but also in the arms breasts and genitalia and hard thick skin. There has been an outbreak of it ...

Elephantiasis, the painful and disfiguring disease affecting more than 100 million people worldwide, could be wiped out by 2020, experts believe. Lymphatic filariasis (LF), often called elephantiasis, ...

Death is an unavoidable part of the cycle of life. But does one need to think about it? For many Elephantiasis patients this frightening thought lingers like an apparition. When a neighbour succumbs ...

Thane: Elephantiasis eradication Universal Medicine Campaign in Bhiwandi taluka will initiate from Wednesday, May 25. The community medicine campaign will be implemented from May 25 to June 5, said ...