Is elephantiasis an infectious disease?
Elephantiasis is due to lymphatic obstruction which results in massive swellings of one or both legs, or arms and possibly scrotum. The skin in the swollen limb is dark and grossly thickened thus resembling the skin of the elephant and hence the name. Any disease condition which can cause the said lymphatic obstruction can cause it including filariasis, a disease transmitted by certain types of mosquito. These are Anopheles species which also transmit malaria and Culex species which also transmit viral encephalitis. So, yes as an answer could do but it not the whole story. Pellegrini Kitara-Okot http:www.malariapreventiontips.
