Health Report - Anti-Malaria Bed Nets Can Fight Elephantiasis

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are working on ways to stop a disease threatens one-fifth of the world's population. Over 120 people are infected with lymphatic filariasis, also known elephantiasis. The disease is found mainly in Southeast and Africa. It affects the lymphatic system, which a major part of the body's natural defenses fighting disease. Elephantiasis can cause swelling, or enlargement, skin and tissue. The cause is a tiny that enters and lives in lymphatic tubes for to eight years. Scientists say they have been to demonstrate that the most common cause of can be stopped. They are urging those at to sleep under nets treated with chemicals that a common insect: the mosquito. Lisa Reimer teaches the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She formerly in Papua New Guinea as part of a studying the disease. The team involved researchers from New Guinea, Britain, Australia and the United States. . Reimer says she was surprised at how effective bed nets covered with insecticide could be at the disease. Doctors normally use drugs to fight disease. Lisa Reimer says doctors in Papua New gave the drugs to people in five villages. says this treatment nearly ended the threat from worm to humans. But the drugs did not the threat from mosquitoes. The treated nets block mosquitoes from securing blood, which they need to . The World Health Organization has set a goal stopping lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem the year 2020. For VOA Learning English, I'm Villarreal.

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