UP launches Filaria Campaign
Purpose
The central government has set the year 2021 as the deadline for complete eradication of filaria in the country.
This campaign more than 65 thousand teams of health workers will distribute medicines to around 6.5 crore people till 10 December in 19 districts.
There are 1.25 lakh cases of filaria in these 19 districts. This time these 19 district have been divided in double drug and triple-drug categories in which they will be provided DEC tablet, Albendazole and ivermectin.
According to WHO, In India Filaria is the second-largest disease that makes people handicapped on a large scale.
Filariasis diseases
Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type.
These are spread by blood-feeding diptera such as black flies and mosquitoes.
This disease belongs to the group of diseases called helminthiases.