Lymphatic filariasis, a devastating parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, affects more than 110 million people worldwide. 1 People who suffer from the infection experience extremely painful ...

The rains are signaling their intention to return, after a few months of break. And soon, the fields will become greener again, food crops will abound and there should be lots for the hungry Jack to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Brazil has worked since 1997 to eliminate the lymphatic filariasis. More than 657 million people in 39 countries ...

On my win-a-trip journey, a reminder that a fifth of the world’s people have worms. By Nicholas Kristof It started with vomiting after a day of sightseeing and ended with edema that just wouldn’t go ...

The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis delivers mass drug administration to 500 million people each year, and adverse events are common following treatment. Now, researchers have ...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown that a single “cocktail” of three pill-based anti-parasite medications is significantly more effective at killing ...