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Haiti is Saying Goodbye to Lymphatic Filariasis, In Spite of Earthquake

  Our teams gave a two-medicine dose to Haitians in our capital city, Port-au-Prince—but most people had no water to swallow the pills. How would we overcome the ongoing cholera outbreak and displacement from the 2010 earthquake to finally rid Haiti of the horribly disfiguring and painful disease called lymphatic filariasis?  Lymphatic filariasis, sometimes known Read More >

Posted on by Valery E. Madsen Beau De Rochars, MD, MPH Assistant Professor at University of FloridaLeave a comment
Categories child health, mosquito-borne disease, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), parasitic diseases
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