蜜芽传媒

According to the World Health Organisation, lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, is a serious threat to approximately 406 million people in the African Region. Elephantiasis is caused by a thread-like parasitic worm that is transmitted by mosquitoes. The infection usually happens in childhood, but the painful and profoundly disfiguring disease often occurs later in life. In a remote village of Zanzibar we meet a seventeen year old whose life has been full of trials and tribulations as a result of this condition. 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 Esther Mackenzie reports.