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What does elephantiasis usually do to a person?
Elephantiasis is a disease that causes thickening of the skin and tissue. Elephantiasis can cause certain body parts to swell to the size of a soccer ball or basketball.
What are the elephantiasis effects?
The disorder elephantiasis is actually a group of disorders, all of which causes swelling to different parts of the body. Each disorder is caused by mosquito or worm bites.
Is elephantiasis disease contagious?
is elephantiasis contagious?
What does elephantiasis do?
Rough Thickened skin, body swelling,chills,fever,rash and leg pain
Is ELEPHANTIASIS communicable or non communicable?
Elephantiasis is a non - communicable disease.If you are having this disease then a part from your body will swell.Swelling cant spread through one person to other,thus it is non communicable,dear.
What is the condition of elephantiasis a form of?
People suffering from elephantiasis retain fluid in the limbs and they become grotesquely swollen. The cause of the disease is parasitic worms that inhabit the lymphatic system and prevent proper circulation.
What is a major symptom of elephantiasis?
A major symptom of elephantiasis is the swelling of the arms and the legs.
The disease Elephantiasis Is Caused By?
Causal organism is a helminth called Wuchereria bancrofti
Is elephantiasis an air-borne disease?
No, elephantiasis is caused by microscopic parasitic threadlike worms
Is elephantiasis DNA OR RNA?
Elephantiasis is caused by a microfilarial nematode (very small worm).
What does elephantiasis mostly result from?
The agents responsible for most of the elephantiasis in the world are filarial worms
What system of the human body is blocked up during elaphantitis?
The lymph glands and the lymphatic vessels get blocked in elephantiasis
