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It was 1993 when the International Task Force for Disease Eradication identified lymphatic filariasis as one of only six diseases meeting the criteria for being eradicable or potentially eradicable.¹ Since that time, efforts toward this goal have moved ahead rapidly. Recognizing that this disease of disability was a major health drain on the economies, well-being, and development of the 80 mostly poor nations where lymphatic filariasis remained endemic and that tools were available that could eliminate it, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution in 1997 proposing as a public health goal the global elimination of lymphatic filariasis. The principal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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