Disability-adjusted life year for<unk>  per 100,000 inhabitants Elephantiasis caused by<unk>  is one of the most common causes of disability in the world. A 2012 report noted that<unk>  affected 120 million people and one billion people at risk for infection. About 40 million people were disfigured or incapacitated by the disease in 2015. It is considered endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Pacific Island nations. In areas endemic for podoconiosis, prevalence can be 5% or higher. In communities where<unk>  is endemic, as many as 10% of women can be afflicted with swollen limbs, and 50% of men can suffer from mutilating genital symptoms. Filariasis is considered endemic in 73 countries; 37 of these are in Africa. * Togo is the first Africa country to have been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated<unk>  as public health problem * In the Americas, it is present in Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. * In Asia, it is present in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. * In the Middle East, it was present only in Yemen until August 2019 when the World Health Organization (WHO) validated Yemen as having eliminated<unk>  as public health problem * In the Pacific region, it is endemic in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Micronesia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Elimination In many of these countries, considerable progress has been made towards elimination of filariasis. In July 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the disease had been eliminated in Tonga. Elimination of the disease has also occurred in Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Egypt, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Niue, Palau, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu, Viet Nam and Wallis and Fortuna. This list is constantly updated and adds on the China and South Korea that were among the first countries to eliminate<unk> , according to the WHO.
Lymphatic filariasis
Isosporiasis
Loa loa filariasis
Leishmaniasis
Onchocerciasis
Paragonimiasis
Toxocariasis
Cyclosporiasis