When Dr. Isaac Chikwanha was a kid in Zimbabwe, he got schistosomiasis. At the time, he didn't think about the cause of this parasitic disease: a worm that penetrates your skin and takes up residence ...

The worms that cause schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni) are unusual in several ways, especially the fact that male and female adults must stay paired together throughout their lives for ...

As a medical student looking for a research project, Nathan Lo, MD, PhD, stumbled across schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm disease that infects people in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America ...

After malaria, human schistosomiasis is the parasitic disease with the highest morbidity and mortality worldwide. An estimated 236 million people are infected. Most are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Akinyi* (not her real name), a 12-year-old girl from Nyalenda, Kisumu County, had been experiencing recurring abdominal pain and diarrhoea for several months. Her parents, subsistence fishers, had ...

From Ancient Egypt to Modern China, how parasitic worms have shaped human health and world history.

Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease caused by a parasitic worm that develops in freshwater snails before infecting people. Knocking back snail populations with pesticides is one method to ...

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