A few months ago while I was watching the Discovery Channel I saw a man that appeared to have a enlarged members in his face. The episode that i was watching was about strange diseases and this man was called the "elephant man". I'm assuming that he was called the elephant man because he had an enlarged member growing out of his nose which appeared to be some sort of an elephant's trunk. This disease is called elephantiasis that is caused by worms transmitted by mosquitoes such as Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori. The mosquito bite causes inflammation of the lymphatic vessels in the affected area, it is most common in tropical areas of Africa. A way to cure this disease is chemotherapy to destory the adult worms and as well as symptomatic treatment to repair the damage of the dead worms in the body.
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