Elephantiasis is also known as lymphatic filariasis. It’s caused by parasitic worms, and can spread from person to person through mosquitoes. Elephantiasis causes swelling of the scrotum, legs, or ...

Elephantiasis is a painful and debilitating condition typically caused by a microscopic parasitic worm about the width of a human hair. This worm becomes embedded in the host's lymph nodes, resulting ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new genomic-based approach that could aid global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic roundworm ...