Hyma, B.; Ramesh, A.; Gunesekaran, K. - In: Social Science & Medicine 29 (1989) 8, pp. 983-990
This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s. In its various forms it remains a public health problem of considerable magnitude in many tropical countries and affects both rural and urban...