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Filariasis: Did You Know That 20% Of The World’s Population Is At The Risk Of Getting Infected?

The common man relates filariasis to huge elephantoid limbs (also known as Malabar Leg ) and believes that filariasis is a rare entity. The end stage of filarial lymphoedema is elephantiasis. But many suffer from minor, early, correctable and reversible forms of this disease. One hundred and twenty million people in the world are infected […]