None of which should detract from the Voyager programme's momentous achievements. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, dispatched 15 days earlier but now trailing because of its excursion to Uranus and Neptune, have offered glimpses of the four gas giants and a slew of strange astronomical phenomena.
Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti.
Filariasis is caused by different species of microscopic parasitic * roundworms that are passed to people through the bites of insects, most commonly mosquitoes.Several strains * of these worms, known as filariae (fih-LAIR-e-e), can infect humans, including Wuchereria bancrofti (vooker-E-re-ah ban-CROFT-e).ymphatic filariasis, which can progress to a condition called elephantiasis * , is the most serious form of the disease. It begins when an infected female mosquito injects worm larvae * into a person's blood while feeding.