The Elephant Foot And The Nobel Prize

Olga Khazan, The Atlantic: Health
Mon, 10/05/2015 - 11:47am

The Elephant Foot and the Nobel Prize

Hasan Jamali / AP The video begins with a boy discovering massive footprints in the dirt. “What is this creature?” he seems to think, as he and a group of villagers follow the tracks to a house. Inside, there’s a man with bulbous, swollen legs. The man uses the awkward gathering as a teachable moment: “Filaria can infect anybody, at any time,” he tells the crowd.

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