The Sunyani West Municipality has recorded an alarming rise in cases of skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Municipal Disease Control Officer, Mrs Benedicta Oppong Fremah, has said.

More than 300 persons in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono region have been infected with elephantiasis, Dr Vera Serwaa Opoku, Postdoctoral fellow at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research ...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday stressed community engagement and raising awareness to tackle last-mile challenges in the elimination of vector-borne disease lymphatic filariasis ...

More than 400,000 people in Sarlahi district will be administered preventive medication against elephantiasis following a rise in lymphatic filariasis infections in the area. The District Health ...

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What you need to know: Elephantiasis remains a health concern, with two main types: a widespread parasitic form called lymphatic filariasis (LF) and a localised form of non-filarial elephantiasis ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Nagpur: On National Deworming Day, a universal drug campaign to eradicate elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) was launched in five districts of Maharashtra on Monday. Significantly, three districts — ...

Zimbabwe has launched a mass drug administration (MDA) campaign to combat lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic worms, called roundworms, ...

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 ...

Thirteen-year-old Sunita was helping her mother in the kitchen when she suddenly slipped and hurt her left leg. Though the pain lingered for a year, there were no visible signs of injury. Then, one ...

Elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis, is an infection that can cause swelling, most often in the legs but also in the arms breasts and genitalia and hard thick skin. There has been an outbreak of it ...