Disease elephantiasis (filariasis)

Elephantiasis or filariasis disease is an infectious disease caused by filarial worms are transmitted by various species of mosquitoes.
This disease is a chronic (chronic) and if not treated, can cause permanent disability in the form of enlargement of the legs, arms and genitalia of both women and men. The disease is quite commonly found in Indonesia.
Modes of Transmission
The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes that suck the blood of someone who had been infected previously. Infected blood and contain larvae and would be transmitted to another person when an infected mosquito bite or blood menghipas person.
Unlike malaria and dengue fever, filariasis can be transmitted by 23 species of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, Culex, Mansonia, Aedes & Armigeres. Because of this, filariasis can spread very quickly.
Clinical symptoms
Filariais Acute symptoms may include:

    Repeated fever for 3-5 days, fever may be lost when a break and came back after working hard
    Swollen lymph nodes (with no injuries) groin area, armpits (lymphadenitis), which looks red, hot and sick
    Tract inflammation of lymph nodes that feel heat and pain radiating from the base of the foot or base of the arm towards the end (retrograde lymphangitis)
    Filarial abscess due to frequent suffering from swollen lymph nodes, may rupture and ooze pus and blood
    Enlargement of the legs, arms, breasts, testicles that look a bit flushed and feels hot (early lymphodema)
Clinical symptoms of chronic persistent enlargement (elephantiasis) in the legs, arms, breasts, scrotum (elephantiasis skroti).
Diagnosis
If someone suspects Filariasis signs and clinical symptoms, the diagnosis made by blood tests performed finger began at 20.00 pm local time. Someone expressed as filariasis patients, if found microfilariae in the blood.
Prevention
Prevention can be done by:

    Trying to avoid mosquito bites transmitting
    Clean water plants in the marsh which is where the brood of mosquitoes, stockpiling, drying or draining standing water as a brood of mosquitoes
    Cleaning the bushes around the house