How to Use filariasis in a Sentence

filariasis

noun

• Most had swelling in both feet, while filariasis tends to affect one leg.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• In some ways, that’s promising because it could also be used to control tsetse flies, which spread sleeping sickness, and other species of mosquito that carry dengue fever and filariasis.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2011
• That symptom — scrotums so huge that, in extreme cases, they must be carried in wheelbarrows — is even more common than swollen legs among victims of lymphatic filariasis.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• Other species can spread Malaria, lymphatic filariasis, and West Nile Virus.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Mar. 2022
• Skeeters are vectors for a host of nasty diseases, including malaria, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and lymphatic filariasis.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020
• Worldwide, over one million people die from mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile, dengue, Zika, yellow fever, malaria, and lymphatic filariasis every year.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• In fact, lymphatic filariasis and intestinal worm treatments share a drug treatment: albendazole.
  — University Of Washington, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• This photomicrograph depicts a close view of the posterior end of a Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria, a leading cause for human lymphatic filariasis.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The mosquito-borne condition, also known as lymphatic filariasis, is common in certain populations of the world, including Myanmar.
  — Author: Amy B Wang, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
• About 40 million people are disfigured or disabled by the disease, called lymphatic filariasis, the World Health Organization estimates.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• The investigators’ working assumption was that the worms that cause lymphatic filariasis had recently reached local mosquitoes.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• In 1998, Merck expanded the program to include lymphatic filariasis.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• The experiment involved testing a vaccine for lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects tens of millions of people and can cause severe disability.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb and Beth Reinhard, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2021
• Both Ōmura and Campbell discovered avermectins, a class of compounds that can kill parasitic roundworms that cause crippling diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, otherwise known as elephantiasis, and onchocerciasis or river blindness.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2015
• Anopheles gambiae which carries malaria, and Culexquinquefasciatus, which carries lymphatic filariasis.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2011

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024