Elephant disease
Elephant disease
Assist. lecturer. Noor Mohammed Hussein
Filaria disease or elephant disease is a pathological group caused by cylindrical worms affecting humans and animals where tissue attacks the subcutaneous skin and lymphatic vessels of mammals and causes acute infections. It is a rare disease of the lymphatic system, causing inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, which leads to the inflation and magnitude of the affected area, especially the limbs or parts of the head or stem. It is a disease that affects men and women and divides filariasis parasites into three totals by the habitat of adult worms in the vertebrate breadwinner and by the part of the body. Lymphatic filaria affects lymphatic immune cells, subcutaneous filaria affects areas of the subcutaneous skin, whites of the eye, and cavity
Clinical symptoms: . Among the most prominent symptoms are high temperatures and fever with an increase in skin thickness and roughness with blistering and increasing depth of color as the condition develops the inflation of the infected organ and often the foot and legs with abnormal accumulation of water in the tissue with frisson and feeling tired.
Prevent: There is no vaccine against the disease, but prevention is better than treatment. It is better to avoid mosquito bites by using mosquito repellent plants as a neem with salanine as well as using mosquito nets to prevent mosquito bites while sleeping in endemic areas, backfilling ponds and swamps, wearing long clothing covering the body, avoiding dark clothing that attracts mosquitoes and using cooled adjustment because cold air reduces activity.