The OBE comes as Sightsavers celebrates 75 years working with governments and partners in more than 30 low and middle income ...

"Once one snail is infected, they can infect a whole population of humans." Researchers issue urgent warning over spread of ...

Monrovia, Liberia — Despite affecting an estimated 56 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS ... parasite that lives part of its life in freshwater ...

A POTENTIALLY deadly parasite carried by snails is creeping into popular European holiday spots, experts have warned. The bug behind the tropical disease schistosomiasis - also known as snail ...

Authorities will implement several measures over the next two years to interrupt schistosomiasis transmission to achieve zero cases of new locally transmitted infections in snails, animals ...

Snails are one of the world’s most deadly creatures because they carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which kills 200,000 peop ...

The Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium says it has achieved a milestone by administering arpraziquantel to the first preschool-aged child for the treatment of schistosomiasis, otherwise known as ...

Communities in areas where the giant African land snail is found are asked to be vigilant regarding their watercourses. That Trini lime at our rivers and streams in parts where the giant African ...

“Schistosomiasis remains a serious concern ... towns and cities in Eastern Visayas that host around 1,718 freshwater snail colonies, which serve as the primary vectors for the disease.

The parasite that causes schistosomiasis completes its life cycle in two hosts – first in snails and then in mammals such as people, dogs, and mice. Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts through the ...

Schistosomiasis, spread by freshwater snails, affects more than 200 million people in many tropical regions of the world. It can cause stomach pain and irreversible consequences such as enlarged liver ...