None of which should detract from the Voyager programme's momentous achievements. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, dispatched 15 days earlier but now trailing because of its excursion to Uranus and Neptune, have offered glimpses of the four gas giants and a slew of strange astronomical phenomena.
Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti.
Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, and Naegleria infect the central nervous system (CNS) of humans and other animals. Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia cause chronic granulomatous amebic encephalitis whereas N. fowleri causes an acute, fulminant primary amebic meningoencephalitis.Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia also cause cutaneous infection in humans. Additionally, Acanthamoeba causes infection of the eye, Acanthamoeba keratitis.Infections also occur naturally in a variety of animals, including gorillas, monkeys, cattle, sheep, dogs, turkeys and toucans (23, 24, 41).canthamoeba has been detected in the CSF of a patient without CNS disease and the authors speculate that the amebae apparently entered the CSF from the nasopharynx through a fistula (31). Acanthamoeba DNA has also been found in the CSF (46).