The Government campaign to eradicate filaria through the mass drug administration programme is good and in the interest of community health.
The adult filariae lodge in the lymphatic system causing debilitating lymphoedema.
Manson commented, ‘It is marvelous how Nature has adapted the habits of the filariae to those of the mosquito.
It was the younger Thomas Bancroft who proved in 1899 that filariae that actively developed in the mosquito were transferred to humans by the act of feeding on blood.
