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.
Elephantiasis is one of those classic terrifying diseases, which causes massive thickening of the skin and underlying tissue, usually effecting the legs and male genitalia. Your scrotum can swell to the size of a basketball, which is not a sexy sight, I assure you. Like so much wrong with the world, itâs caused by a worm, its symbiotic bacteria and a mosquito. Thatâs right, those flying bastards can give you the parasite thatâll permanently destroy your lower half.