Elephantiasis
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Caused by the filarial worm,
elephantiasis
is a parasitic infection that can cause horrific swelling of the legs and scrotum.
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Indeed, India alone accounts for one-quarter of intestinal worm infections worldwide and more than one-half of all cases of elephantiasis, leprosy, and visceral leishmaniasis.
This group of parasitic and related infections – including lymphatic filariasis (or elephantiasis), intestinal worms, and schistosomiasis – is a scourge of poverty.
These drug donations for river blindness, trachoma (another blinding disease), leprosy, elephantiasis, worms, and bilharzia, as well as for sleeping sickness, give hope to millions.
The increase in treatment has been spectacular – more than 500 million people in 51 countries treated for
elephantiasis
in 2007, and 60 million in 19 countries have been treated for river blindness.
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