According to the World Health Organization, in the world there are more than 1,400 million people in 73 countries at risk of suffering from lymphatic filariasis, generally known as elephantiasis . Genital elephantiasis (not elephantitis) is a syndrome caused by various inflammatory diseases caused by parasites, spirochetes or treponemes (bacteria) that are spread through mosquitoes and that exorbitantly increase the size of the external genitalia to incapacitate the people to be able to even walk.
These bacteria are more common in tropical countries, where people suffering from this disease end up with bone malformations due to inflammation so severe that it leads to a general deformation of the body . Lymphogranulomas venereum are the most common in genital elephantiasis.
This muscular hypertrophy that manifests itself in adulthood (but the infection is usually contracted in childhood) causes permanent disability and the countries with the most affected are: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Philippines, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria or the Republic Democratic of the Congo.
