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Medical - Malaria / Filariasis & Mosquitoes List of Categories
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- Where can I find information about the effects of Malaria on preganant women in PNG?
- who are the manufacturer of the drugs for anti-malaria?
- What is filariasis?
- Is filariasis fatal?
- How is filariasis spread?
- How many people are affected by filariasis?
- Where is filariasis found?
- Where can I find out more information about filariasis?
- Is there another name for filariasis?
- What are the main types of filariasis that affect over 170 million people worldwide?
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- Where can I find information about the effects of Malaria on preganant women in PNG?
See -- http://www.prema-eu.org/iss4muell.htm -- research by by Tivo Mueller, Stephen Rogerson, John Reeder, PNG Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 60, Goroka, PNG and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- who are the manufacturer of the drugs for anti-malaria?
Does a reader know the answer to this question?
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- What is filariasis?
Filariasis is a group of tropical diseases caused by various thread-like parasitic roundworms and their larvae.
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- Is filariasis fatal?
Filariasis is rarely fatal but it is the second leading cause of permanent and long-term disability in the world.
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- How is filariasis spread?
Filariasis is transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito. A single bite is usually not enough to spread the disease.
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- How many people are affected by filariasis?
I am unsure of the figures but Bancroftian filariasis affects approximately 120 million residents of tropical and subtropical areas of the world.
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- Where is filariasis found?
The disease affects about 170 million people in the tropical and sub-tropical areas of Southeast Asia, South America, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
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- Where can I find out more information about filariasis?
As a starting point please visit -- http://www.filariasis.org
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- Is there another name for filariasis?
Most people are probably more familiar with this disease known by another name, elephantiasis.
Elephantiasis is not "Elephant Man disease." For many years it was assumed that Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, suffered from neurofibromatosis, and for this reason neurofibromatosis is often called "Elephant Man disease". Neurofibromatosis is not caused by a parasite; it is a genetic disease. There is now speculation that Merrick actually suffered from a much rarer condition known as Proteus syndrome.
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- What are the main types of filariasis that affect over 170 million people worldwide?
Of the infections, 90% are caused by Wuchereria bancrofti, and 10% by Brugia malayi (limited to Asia and parts of the Pacific).
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Please note that this is not "Ask Jeeves" - you cannot type a whole sentence as your query. Enter a word, a phrase, or several words and press search.
Please remember that this is a FAQ database about Papua New Guinea.
Doing a search for PNG or New Guinea or even P.N.G will probably not return much. Keep the search simple. i.e. if you want to find out the population simply enter "population" without the quotes. There is no need to have PNG / P.N.G or whatever in the search string.
