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 ...

On my win-a-trip journey, a reminder that a fifth of the world’s people have worms. By Nicholas Kristof It started with vomiting after a day of sightseeing and ended with edema that just wouldn’t go ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new genomic-based approach that could aid global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic roundworm ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An international effort to eliminate elephantiasis is on track and has protected millions of children against the disfiguring disease, proving to be one of the "best buys" in public ...