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Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program - In the News



17 March 2007
National Public Radio: Learning to Live with a Disfiguring Disease (PDF)
A health worker who is the son of missionaries has started a support group to help people suffering from a disfiguring and painful condition called lymphatic filariasis.

13 March 2007
National Public Radio: A Doctor's Lifelong Commitment to Fight Diseases (PDF)
Dr. Frank Richards specializes in the infectious diseases that are rampant in developing countries, especially diseases that target children.

9 Apr 2006
New York Times Feature on Lymphatic Filariasis: Beyond Swollen Limbs, A Disease's Hidden Agony
"Beyond Swollen Limbs, a Disease's Hidden Agony" by Donald G. McNeil Jr. is the fourth in The New York Times "On the Brink" series of articles about five diseases — polio, Guinea worm, blinding trachoma, measles and lymphatic filariasis — that are extinct in the developed world but stubbornly persistent in some poor nations. As the diseases hover on the brink of eradication, doctors and scientists face daunting obstacles as they struggle to finish the job.


22 March 2005
New York Times Feature: Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics (PDF)
By Donald G. McNeil, Jr., part of  the "Cases Without Borders" series, this feature article examines how mosquito netting treated with insecticide is aiding the battle against lymphatic filariasis.