P. K. Das

TL;DR: The Tamil Nadu programme showed that large‐scale repeated annual DEC mass treatment is feasible and that existing health services are capable of delivering the drug to all communities.

TL;DR: The disability‐adjusted life years lost due to lymphatic filariasis must be revised and the public health importance of the disease reassessed and considerable functional impairment coupled with recent information on economic burden and productivity loss necessitates paying more attention to the control of the Disease.

TL;DR: It is shown that the chronic form of lymphatic filariasis inflicts a considerable economic burden on affected individuals and loss of work time is perpetual, as chronic disease manifestations are mostly irreversible.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the age-distribution of bancroftian filariasis is primarily determined by age-dependency in the rate of acquisition of infection.

TL;DR: A stochastic approach appropriate for general use in endemic communities was applied to estimate the average yearly instantaneous rate of loss of W. bancrofti microfilaraemia from infected individuals, and gain by uninfected individuals, from longitudinal data, and the results suggest that the life span is at the lower end of previous estimates.