The disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old—but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, ...

An incredible international team of over 100 scientists has just completed a crucial step that might soon help fight a terrible parasitic disease known as schistosomiasis, which kills to up two ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 18, 2020) Freshwater habitats are threatened now—more than ever—by the adverse effects of pesticide pollution, according to a report published in Scientific Reports by a ...

The squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase ...

Killing up to 200,000 people annually, schistosomiasis is one of the most deadly parasitic diseases in the world, second only to malaria. Soon, however, prawn aquaculture could be used to control the ...

TOKYO, March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), a unique Japanese public-private partnership formed to battle infectious diseases around the ...

Scientists are mobilizing an all-female army to help stymie schistosomiasis, a sometimes deadly parasitic disease that affects millions of people every year. Macrobrachium rosenbergii prawns “are ...

Harmful parasites carried by snails may be spreading, in part due to human-caused climate change, according to reporting from The Telegraph in May. Marginalized populations, including women and girls, ...

This is no fairy tale: A giant snail has arrived in the Big Apple, and the only happy ending will feature its destruction. In June, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, along with its Division of Plant Industry, has implemented a quarantine for some South Florida neighborhoods after ...