CHENNAI: Weeks after Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) officials visited the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Jawahar Nagar, ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

Health authorities in Kapelebyong District are worried about the increasing number of cases of elephantiasis. Current data shows that 5 out of every 100 people in the district are living with ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called elephantiasis), a disease that leads ...

Researchers at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) have reported a surge in soil-transmitted helminth ...

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 ...

What we now call leprosy was called elephantiasis in ancient Greece. Although most likely originally a Jewish translation, Jews gradually stopped using the Septuagint primarily due to its ...

Diseases such as elephantiasis, bilharzia, river blindness and many others are overlooked, says Kambugu. “Health research should be dictated by data: What is killing us most?” he says.