Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease, sometimes called bilharzia or snail fever. The disease impacts a huge number of people around the world, over 230 million people are infected with one of ...

Researchers found that a dozen tourists picked up schistosomiasis while kayaking the Upper Nile in Uganda. Staying in white water is no guarantee you won't be infected by the parasite.

Two of the most socioeconomically devastating parasitic diseases in tropical countries — malaria and schistosomiasis — may be closely linked in their infection processes, a recent Yale study has found ...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic neglected tropical disease that is estimated to currently infect more than 140 million persons. 1,2 Ninety percent of the disease burden is in sub-Saharan Africa ...

The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects 200 million people a year but is deemed a "neglected tropical disease." A new study pays attention, comparing drug treatment with cups of wormwood tea.

Schistosomiasis remains one of the world's most prevalent diseases. Despite more than a century of control efforts and the introduction of highly effective antischistosomal drug therapy in the 1980 ...

A schistosomiasis expert concludes that global eradication of schistosomiasis is feasible if the current infection control strategy shifts to a proactive, comprehensive elimination strategy.

In medical school, Nathan Lo thought we could do more to help the 750 million people around the world with or at risk of getting schistosomiasis. This week, he helped World Health Organization rewrite ...

Parasite paralysis: A new way to fight schistosomiasis? Date: October 17, 2019 Source: PLOS Summary: Scientists have isolated a natural chemical that acts as a potent kryptonite against parasitic ...

Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, snail fever, or Katayama fever, is an infectious disease caused by parasitic worms of the genus Schistosoma.

Abstract and Introduction Abstract In the current era of intensified and integrated control against schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases, there is a need to carefully rethink and ...

At present, treatment and morbidity control of schistosomiasis rest on a single drug, praziquantel. [57–59] Discovered in the mid-1970s, praziquantel is active against all human Schistosoma ...