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Lymphatic Filariasis, Found in 80 Countries, Rarely Kills but Destroys Lives by Causing Deformities One of the first things that Marc S. Micozzi did when he became director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in the early 1990s was to move the elephantiasis leg. Grotesquely swollen and covered with folds of thickened skin, the leg was probably the most notorious item displayed in what was once called the Army Medical Museum. For several generations of Americans, it was a vivid memory of the customary childhood trip to Washington. Even children who had only been told about it could...