Onchocerciasis is an endemic discase in west africa and central america .
盘尾丝虫病是西部非洲和中美洲的一种地方病.
Lecture 16 : community participation in onchocerciasis : a case study .
第16讲：社区参与对抗盘尾丝虫病：案例研究。
But it also kills several tropical parasites , including the mosquito-borne ones that cause lymphatic filariasis-a disease also called elephantiasis for the horribly swollen limbs suffered by patients-and those carried by black flies that cause onchocerciasis , or river blindness .
