Human disease caused by parasitic worms.
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Palau and Wallis and Futuna have eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.
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Kiribati has eliminated lymphatic filariasis, otherwise known as elephantiasis, after a 19-year-long public health campaign.
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In 1997, the World Health Assembly resolved to eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.
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Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness.
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Antifilarial antibody testing has been established as a sensitive and specific method of diagnosing lymphatic filariasis.