Egypt eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem
by News Desk from Outbreak News Today on (#3JEFV)
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that Egypt eliminated lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. This is a first in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Egypt's success comes after almost two decades (2000) of implementing sustained control and prevention measures (including mass treatment of populations) and surveillance in affected/at-risk localities. Egypt joins ten others ["]
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