None of which should detract from the Voyager programme's momentous achievements. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, dispatched 15 days earlier but now trailing because of its excursion to Uranus and Neptune, have offered glimpses of the four gas giants and a slew of strange astronomical phenomena.
Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti.
Causes of Elephantiasis. Filarial elephantiasis is caused by the parasitic nematode worm which is spread by certain species of mosquitoes. It is further compounded by the presence of rickettsia-like bacteria which infects, but does not destroy, the worm.