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The researchers including Case Western Reserve University School of medicine professor James Kazura MD found that insecticide-treated bed nets reduce transmission of lymphatic filariasis to undetectable levels--even
The World health organization reports that more than 120 million people suffer from lymphatic filariasis commonly known as elephantiasis.
--and highlights the importance of integrating this type of intervention as a part of the global strategy to eliminate lymphatic filariasis said Kazura the paper's senior author and director of the medical school's Center for Global Health and Diseases.
Insecticide-treated bed nets already are used widely in areas where lymphatic filariasis and malaria are present.
We should not rely solely on mass drug administration to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. By combining the existing strategy with vector control we are more likely to reach elimination thresholds said Lisa J. Reimer Phd first author on the paper and a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
while having a high payoff for both filariasis and malaria control. Kazura and his colleagues in Papua new guinea plan to study progress in eliminating the disease over the next several years.
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