Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a disease not just treatable or controllable; it is a disease that can
be eliminated. Indeed, LF is currently the target of a major global initiative to do just that; a
few visionaries of the past 50 years did hypothesize that LF elimination was feasible.
However, for most of the scientific and global health communities, the elimination of such a
broadly disseminated, mosquito-borne disease has seemed highly unlikely. During the past
decade, however, both the treatment strategies and the control strategies for LF have …