As a result of its appearance, podoconiosis can cause social stigmatization and discrimination. People with podoconiosis also report a lower quality of...
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alkaline clay soils. Podoconiosis however typically affects the legs bilaterally, while filariasis is generally unilateral. Also, podoconiosis very rarely affects...
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Africa and Southeast Asia, are affected. Nonfilarial elephantiasis (or podoconiosis), an immune disease affecting the lymph vessels[citation needed] Leishmaniasis...
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genetic disorder. It can also occur in acromegaly, elephantiasis, and podoconiosis. The adjective pachydermatous is used to describe skin showing symptoms...
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Republic of the Congo. Dr Ernest W Price (1907-1990), the discoverer of Podoconiosis. He worked at Pimu and IME Kimpese in the Democratic Republic of the...
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Initiative Mycoskie states that his initial motivation was a disease called podoconiosis—a debilitating and disfiguring disease which causes one's feet to swell...
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on podoconiosis: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Ethics 10 Article number 13 Gail Davey, Fasil Tekola, and Melanie J. Newport, (2007) Podoconiosis: non-infectious...
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44:159–174 Vernon G (February 2022). "Dr E W Price, the discoverer of podoconiosis". Journal of Medical Biography. 30 (1): 2–5. doi:10.1177/0967772019888406...
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mycoses Paracoccidioidomycosis Ectoparasites: Scabies Myiasis Non-infectious diseases caused by toxin exposure: Podoconiosis Snakebite envenoming * Only WHO...
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doctor, orthopaedic surgeon, leprosy specialist and the discoverer of podoconiosis, one of the neglected tropical diseases. A list of his publications is...
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