filariasis
noun
fil·a·ri·a·sis
ˌfi-lə-ˈrī-ə-səs 
plural filariases
ˌfi-lə-ˈrī-ə-ˌsēz
: infestation with or disease caused by filariae
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Farmer urged more research and development targeting the deadliest infections, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB, but also neglected tropical diseases such as cholera, lymphatic filariasis and river blindness.
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Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Brain-eating amoebas, blood flukes, leeches, and the worms that cause lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, are all parasites.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
Ivermectin subsequently proved extremely effective in treating tropical diseases such as onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, which devastate and disfigure poor people around the world; as with eflornithine, the World Health Organization listed it as an essential medicine.
—Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
Bangladesh Bangladesh eliminated lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
Documents obtained by the advocacy group through the Freedom of Information Act show that, beginning in fall 2020, researchers used 28 beagles to test whether a vaccine candidate could prevent lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic illness transmitted by mosquitoes.
—Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 32,533,188 people in 12 Nigerian states received treatment for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis between April 2020 and March 2021, representing a therapeutic coverage of 70 percent and geographic coverage of 92 percent.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
Mosquitoes carry many threatening diseases, like chikungunya, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, Rift Valley fever, Yellow fever, Zika, malaria, Japanese encephalitis and West Nile fever, WHO reports.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
In some ways, that’s promising because it could also be used to control tsetse flies, which spread sleeping sickness, and other species of mosquito that carry dengue fever and filariasis.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2011
Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Brain-eating amoebas, blood flukes, leeches, and the worms that cause lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, are all parasites.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
Ivermectin subsequently proved extremely effective in treating tropical diseases such as onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, which devastate and disfigure poor people around the world; as with eflornithine, the World Health Organization listed it as an essential medicine.
—Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
Bangladesh Bangladesh eliminated lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
Documents obtained by the advocacy group through the Freedom of Information Act show that, beginning in fall 2020, researchers used 28 beagles to test whether a vaccine candidate could prevent lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic illness transmitted by mosquitoes.
—Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 32,533,188 people in 12 Nigerian states received treatment for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis between April 2020 and March 2021, representing a therapeutic coverage of 70 percent and geographic coverage of 92 percent.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
Mosquitoes carry many threatening diseases, like chikungunya, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, Rift Valley fever, Yellow fever, Zika, malaria, Japanese encephalitis and West Nile fever, WHO reports.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
In some ways, that’s promising because it could also be used to control tsetse flies, which spread sleeping sickness, and other species of mosquito that carry dengue fever and filariasis.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2011
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Word History
Etymology
New Latin
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
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