eradication campaign
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department is launching today, Oct. 18th — through Nov. 18th — the third round of Mass Drug Administration to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) in American Samoa — which the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says is the only U.S...

![The causative agents of lymphatic filariasis (LF) include the mosquito-borne filarial nematodes Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, B. timori An estimated 90% of LF cases are caused by W. bancrofti (Bancroftian filariasis). [graphic via CDC] The causative agents of lymphatic filariasis](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/w_bancrofti_lifecycle_19.jpg?itok=mZ1AayEw)