How to Use "elephantiasis" with Example Sentences

1. According to who , the infection usually begins in childhood but often takes years to cause elephantiasis .

2. Since 2008 , for example , volunteers in sierra leone have distributed drugs to fight elephantiasis , locally dubbed " big fut " .

3. With river blindness , black flies spread larvae that when grown destroy eye tissue ; mosquitoes do the same for the worms that block the lymphatic system in elephantiasis ; hookworm , roundworm and whipworm are soil-born .

4. But it also kills several tropical parasites , including the mosquito-borne ones that cause lymphatic filariasis-a disease also called elephantiasis for the horribly swollen limbs suffered by patients-and those carried by black flies that cause onchocerciasis , or river blindness .