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Philippines: Filariasis case reported in Koronadal City

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in South Cotabato are reporting a filariasis case in a remote sitio in Koronadal City. The individual in Sitio El Lalam, Barangay Assumption  tested positive of...

Philippines: South Cotabato reports 33 lymphatic filariasis cases from two barangays

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Integrated Provincial Health Office in South Cotabato in the southern Philippines report intensifying surveillance and case-finding activities against filariasis to keep the province...

River Blindness in the Americas, Lymphatic Filariasis and Malaria on Hispaniola elimination effort: Carter Center’s new partnership

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The Carter Center and The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) announced an exciting new partnership to support the Carter Center’s innovative disease elimination efforts in the Americas. GLIDE,...

Africa: Malawi eliminates Lymphatic Filariasis as a public health problem

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) announced recently that Malawi has been validated to have eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. MSD, GSK, and the Mectizan...

Yemen: Lymphatic filariasis eliminated as a public health problem

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF) reported this week that Yemen has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as public health problem, making them...

The Parasitology interviews, Part 5

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Filarial worms are long thread like worms that live in the tissue and body cavities of vertebrates. Their eggs mature into tiny larvae called microfilariae. There are at least eight filarids that are of...

Infectious disease bric-a-bracs: Elephantiasis, Indonesia dengue death toll

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Here is a look at some interesting infectious disease and health news, opinion and research reported across the globe: Man’s legs ‘turning to stone’ after contracting parasitic infection...

Lymphatic filariasis: Vietnam eliminates it as a public health problem

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Vietnam, along with Palau and Wallis and Futuna eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region Monday. WHO Director-General...

Filariasis: Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi

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Filarial worms are long thread like worms that live in the tissue and body cavities of vertebrates. Their eggs mature into tiny larvae called microfilariae. There are at least eight filarids that are of...

Kenya certified as Guinea Worm free, Maternal and neonatal tetanus is next

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Kenya has been certified guinea worm free by the World Health Organization. Speaking in a ceremony where she received the certificate from the World Health Organization, Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Sicily...