HEALTH HACK: Discover Types and Causes of Elephantiasis, and How to manage it.
Elephantiasis is a nematodes disease. Larva of microfilariae is the main source. Filarial worms are long and thin. It attacks the lymphatic system and subcutaneous connective tissue.Filariasis has two main types named as Onchocerca VolulusMansonella Streptocerca These species of filaria inhabit in dermis and subcutaneous tissue. The cause of elephantiasis is Wuchereria bancrofti. This species occurs in Pakistan. Other species do not exist. Man is the definitive host while the Mosquito genus CULEX is the intermediate.Filaria has separate sex. They live in...