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Elephantiasis Cases Cut By 150 Million, the Second-Leading Cause of Disability in the World

[ad_1] Humanity is making great strides in reducing the global prevalence of lymphatic filariasis, a tropical disease. Copyright Joshua E. Cogan / World Health-Organization Scientists conducting a review for the Lancet magazine used nearly 15,000 different locations around the world to estimate that the burden of the disease, commonly known as elephantiasis, was around 199…