Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

In order to prevent lymphatic filariasis, an awareness drive for children of all government schools will be launched. For this, a Mass Drug Administration will be organised by the Health and Family ...

Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla reviewed the progress and action plan of the National Filariasis Eradication Programme at State Mantralaya. The Deputy CM directed in the State Task Force meeting ...

Hydrocelectomy (hydrocele surgeries) was successfully conducted on no fewer than 837 Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) cases in Darazo and Giade local government areas of Bauchi state to give attention to ...

Mosquitoes and black flies transmit filariasis to humans; black flies transmit onchocerciasis. Although filariasis can be a serious disease in humans and other species, in New World monkeys the ...

Indonesia continues to accelerate efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), particularly leprosy and ...

Lymphatic Filariasis is not a neglected disease as may be the case in some other countries, but a priority disease for elimination in a time-bound manner. The Union health ministry has come up ...

Chhapra: The district administration will kick off a 17-day campaign to make Saran free from filariasis from Feb 10.

Ranchi: Jharkhand education department is launching a comprehensive programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis through awareness and medication distr.

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

NTDs, a group of 21 debilitating infectious diseases, affect over 1 billion people globally, causing significant morbidity, disability, and death. These diseases, including visceral leishmaniasis (VL) ...

India experiences the world’s absolute burden of at least 11 NTDs, including hookworm, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, ...