An international team of researchers has found what might be a cure for river blindness and elephantiasis. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group describes ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called elephantiasis), a disease that leads to severe swelling and deformities of the limbs ...

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STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis ...

Early explorers reported widespread infection of Polynesians with elephantiasis. The causative organism is the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti. This poses the problem of how the parasite reached ...

[DAR ES SALAAM, SciDev.Net] A mass drug campaign targeting a tropical parasitic worm infection in southwest Tanzania produced an unexpected result: a decline in new HIV infections. Researchers say ...