Slide Show: Victims of Filariasis

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Antoinette St. Fab, left, and her mother, Marie Denise Bernard, in Léogâne, Haiti. Their swollen legs are a symptom of lymphatic filariasis.

Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times

Slide Show: Victims of Filariasis

Lymphatic filariasis, which causes lymph nodes to swell painfully, is not curable, but health experts hope to eliminate the disease within a generation.