Elephantiasis

My report is on elephantiasis. It is a disease that is mostly found in the tropics. This disease is a condition in which a part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to a thickening of the skin and the underlying tissues. It results from a long term interference with the flow of lymphatic fluid away from these tissues. The most frequently affected part is the leg. The most common cause of lymphatic obstruction is …

…nearly one-fifth of the world's population is at risk of infection, it will take approximately 20 years to eliminate the disease. In men the scrotum is affected about as much as the leg. Less often it occurs in the arm. Occasionally, it affects the breasts or external genitals of women. In rare cases, elephantiasis may be caused from a lot of surgical removal of lymph nodes or from a disease other than filariasis affecting the nodes.