Filariasis
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This year, Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Vanuatu received acknowledgement from the WHO for having eliminated lymphatic
filariasis
as a public-health problem.
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Hundreds of millions suffer from other neglected tropical diseases, including lymphatic
filariasis
and cholera.
This group of parasitic and related infections – including lymphatic
filariasis
(or elephantiasis), intestinal worms, and schistosomiasis – is a scourge of poverty.
They are unfamiliar to the developed world, and their names are often difficult to pronounce:
filariasis
(elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and others, particularly intestinal worms.
Women who have been scarred or disfigured from diseases such as FGS and lymphatic
filariasis
are often stigmatized to the point that they are unable to marry or are abandoned by their spouses.
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