Experts are hoping elephantiasis doesn’t spread in Haiti post-Hurricane Matthew. Women are the hardest hit by this disease, which is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Les Cayes, Haiti, in the ...

As per the World Health Organization (WHO), 62% of the 657 million people requiring preventive drugs for lymphatic filariasis reside in India.

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," ...

Tinotenda*'s childhood in Shamva, a mining town in north-eastern Zimbabwe, was normal - that is, full of promise and wild dreams. That wide open future began to contract when she started to experience ...

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