This Is What Happens When You Have Elephantiasis, And It's Completely Awful

There is a whole plethora of painful and uncomfortable physical conditions out there, but elephantiasis is definitely one of the worst. A symptom of various diseases, it causes a person's body parts such as their legs, arms, or even genitals to swell to extreme proportions.Here are a few of the diseases that have this horrible symptom. 1. Lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis tropica, is most common in Africa and Asia, where infected mosquitoes spread parasitic worms called filarial nematodes through their bites. Wikimedia Commons The worms then make their way to the lymphatic system, where they can cause blockages that result...

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