An estimated 2 million of Tanzania's 32 million people suffer from elephantiasis, and 15 million others are at risk, she said.
32.
Elephantiasis is spread by mosquitoes that have sucked immature microfilariae _ the worms that grow to lodge in the lymphatic system _ from diseased humans.
33.
Continual rainfall, 50 varieties of dysentery, skin disease, and the dreaded elephantiasis all combined to make life miserable for the construction men.
34.
Furthermore, he was the first to perform a elephantiasis in the US . Many of his publications continue to be cited through the 2000s.
35.
More than 50 percent of Leogane's 10, 000 inhabitants are infected; about 5 percent of those actually have developed symptoms of elephantiasis.
36.
The parasite can cause either elephantiasis, in which the limbs become grossly swollen, or hydrocoele, in which the scrotum enlarges to gruesome proportions.
37.
Since Merck expanded its donation program two years ago to include elephantiasis, more than 700, 000 Tanzanians have received free treatment, Melecela said.
38.
Lymphedema can develop within six months and development of elephantiasis has been reported within a year of infection among refugees, who are more immunologically naive.
39.
Those who develop the chronic stages of elephantiasis are usually amicrofilaraemic and often have adverse immunological reactions to the microfilariae as well as the adult worms.
40.
Besides West Nile virus and its St . Louis and Japanese relatives, yellow fever, dengue fever and elephantiasis can all be injected by mosquito saliva.
