Article: Renewed Hope For An Incurable Disease
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Renewed Hope For An Incurable Disease
I met Ananias Hagos on a trip to Sorsogon. He was a tall and lean 54-year-old from Brgy. Tinampo in Irosin town, a winding two-hour drive from Legaspi City. Offering a faint smile when local health workers introduced us to each other, Mang Naning to his town mates, was obviously shy and soft-spoken, uttering words which at times, only he alone could hear. Sad to say, Mang Naning has been suffering from a debilitating disease for the past twenty years.
Mang Naning is afflicted with a tropical parasitic disease called lymphatic filariasis (LF) or tibak. LF affects over 100 million people in more than 70 tropical and subtropical countries. Mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes LF. Initially, infections may have no symptoms, but often they are associated with acute syndro...
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