Schistosomiasis (SCH) and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) are among the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) — a group of conditions that disproportionately affect the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Last year, for example, WHO mapped out a larger strategy to eliminate neglected tropical diseases like schistosomiasis by 2030. These diseases affect more than 1 billion people around the world.

Anyone who grew up in any rural village in Rwanda is familiar with intestinal worms. During my training as a medical doctor, I learned intestinal worms, also called soil-transmitted helminths, are one ...

Schistosomiasis is typically caused through interaction with contaminated water, which leads to mass infection in some regions. But according to Matt Tucker, director of the Schistosoma Lab of the ...

Schistosomiasis announces its presence pretty subtly -- fever, headaches, coughing, and the like two to 12 weeks after exposure, and the symptoms go away on their own.

Schistosomiasis of the bladder, as well as schistosomiasis of other portions of the urinary or reproductive tracts in men and women, may produce this characteristic calcification, which is used to ...

This work is part of the NIDIAG network (collaborative project; www.NIDIAG.org) supported by the European Commission under the Health Cooperation Work Programme of the 7th Framework Programme ...

MANILA, Philippines—Still endemic, or unique, in almost 30 provinces, schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, remains a serious public health problem in the Philippines with millions of people ...