Lymphatic Filariasis Research Paper

Lymphatic filariasis is known as elephantiasis, it is a condition that causes swelling to the lower limbs. There are three different filarial parasites that can cause Lymphatic filariasis in humans Brugia malayi, Brugia timori, and Wuchereria bancrofti. The three are transmitted by mosquitoes, but can be found in different places in world. Brugia malayi is found in the South and South East part of Asia. Bruges timori is found in the lesser Sunda islands of the Indonesian archipelago. Wuchereria bancrofti is found in Asia (mostly in India), Africa, the Pacific and the Americas (mostly in Brazil, Haiti, Guyana and the Dominican Republic). The three types of Lymphatic filariasis are the leading cause of permanent disability worldwide. There are about 120 million people are affected by Lymphatic filariasis and thirty present of them are severely disabled by the disease. There are over seventy countries and around a billion people that are at risk of getting infected. People living in the United States have not been affected in many years and it is said that by the 2020 that it will no longer affect people in Asia.
Thankfully for people living in the United States Lymphatic Filariasis is not common, however it is common in sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. The transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis is very interesting a mosquito bites a human the parasite beings to grow in the human, then another mosquito bites that human, the eggs grow in the mosquito move to its head, the mosquito bites the human, and the worms being to grow. The lymph nodes are affected and swelling of the lower limbs beings. It looks like there may be a cure for Brugia malayi by the year 2020 according to World Health Organization, because of vaccine and drug progress and new procedures of vector control. (Brugia malayi.