How to Use filariasis in a Sentence

filariasis

noun
  • Most had swelling in both feet, while filariasis tends to affect one leg.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • That symptom — scrotums so huge that, in extreme cases, they must be carried in wheelbarrows — is even more common than swollen legs among victims of lymphatic filariasis.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Other species can spread Malaria, lymphatic filariasis, and West Nile Virus.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • In lymphatic filariasis, adult worms live in the lymphatic vessels, a network running throughout the body that returns fluid back to the circulatory system.
    — Philip Budge, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Since then, these public health campaigns have distributed hundreds of millions of doses of treatment for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis.
    — Philip Budge, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The investigators’ working assumption was that the worms that cause lymphatic filariasis had recently reached local mosquitoes.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Skeeters are vectors for a host of nasty diseases, including malaria, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and lymphatic filariasis.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The mosquito-borne condition, also known as lymphatic filariasis, is common in certain populations of the world, including Myanmar.
    — Author: Amy B Wang, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
  • This photomicrograph depicts a close view of the posterior end of a Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria, a leading cause for human lymphatic filariasis.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The experiment involved testing a vaccine for lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects tens of millions of people and can cause severe disability.
    — Yasmeen Abutaleb and Beth Reinhard, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In 1998, Merck expanded the program to include lymphatic filariasis.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Ancient foes Lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis are centuries-old afflictions.
    — Philip Budge, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Also last year, Bangladesh succeeded in stamping out lymphatic filariasis, a debilitating parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Bangladesh Bangladesh eliminated lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
  • About 40 million people are disfigured or disabled by the disease, called lymphatic filariasis, the World Health Organization estimates.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Anopheles gambiae which carries malaria, and Culexquinquefasciatus, which carries lymphatic filariasis.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2011
  • Both Ōmura and Campbell discovered avermectins, a class of compounds that can kill parasitic roundworms that cause crippling diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, otherwise known as elephantiasis, and onchocerciasis or river blindness.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2015
  • For lymphatic filariasis, as of 2024, 871 million people no longer need preventive medications, and 21 countries have eliminated this infection.
    — Philip Budge, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • For over 50 years, researchers, clinicians and policymakers in the global health community have worked to eliminate infections such as onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis).
    — Philip Budge, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026

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