Major Progress toward Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis

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Abstract
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 . . .