Meanings of cause elephantiasis in English

A public health campaign has saved more than 6 million people from filarial worms, which cause elephantiasis and other grotesque maladies, in just eight years.

Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitical infection that causes elephantiasis, a gross enlargement of legs, genitals and other extremities.

To overcome these limitations, we have focused our research on the human nematode parasite Brugia malayi, which causes elephantiasis.