Communities in areas where the giant African land snail is found are asked to be vigilant regarding their watercourses.

S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no. RR374-053/4893196). The research of K. Ingram and J ...

I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for ...

schistosomiasis; and hemoglobinopathies, including sickle cell disease and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. Lastly, a practical approach to the diagnosis of chronic anemia is presented.

Former president Jimmy Carter was the only US president to reach 100 years old. Carter left a long legacy in global health ...

Parasite, zombie, leech – these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, ...

But he subsequently beat the diagnosis and was declared cancer ... the village because the adult cannot see,” said Schaffner. Schistosomiasis is caused when a parasitic blood fluke infects ...

While diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary TB is complex and ... Besides these, endemic infections like Schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis are prominent among TB patients, contributing to the ...

The former president changed global health by sparing millions of people from Guinea worm, river blindness and other ...

That means the XEC strain is more transmissible than many of its predecessors, but on the upside, the symptoms associated with it will likely be milder, Roberts said. Many of these symptoms also ...

These parasites, the causative agents of schistosomiasis, had long been assumed to make lifelong pairs. The male fluke, larger than its female counterpart, would ensnare the female within his ...