It is most commonly caused by a parasitic disease known as lymphatic filariasis.
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Lymphatic filariasis has affected more than 120 million people in the world.
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Mosquitoes have widely differing abilities to transmit lymphatic filariasis.
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Dengue fever, filariasis, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis are also endemic.
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They include lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, schistosomiasis and Chagas disease.
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Many other diseases such as lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis need similar efforts.
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Lymphatic filariasis and malaria are mosquito-born diseases also targeted by The Carter Center.
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Doxycycline has previously been found to be effective against filariasis caused by the Wuchereria species.
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Lymphatic filariasis is caused by the worms Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori.
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A disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels
Filariasis (Philariasis) is a parasitic disease and is considered an infectious tropical disease, that is caused by thread-like filarial nematodes (roundworms) in the superfamily Filarioidea, also known as "filariae".
Filariasis is a disease which occurs in domestic animals as in human beings.