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short note on elephantheasis, sleeping sickness.​

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Elephantiasis is the enlargement and hardening of limbs or body parts due to tissue swelling. It is characterised by oedema, hypertrophy, and fibrosis of skin and subcutaneous tissues, due to obstruction of lymphatic vessels.It may affect the genitalia.The term elephantiasis is often used in reference to (symptoms caused by) parasitic worm infections,but may refer to variety of diseases where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions.

Sleeping sickness, also called "human African trypanosomiasis", is a widespread tropical disease that can be fatal if not treated. It is spread by the bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina Genus), a species native to the African continent.

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