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 ...

In Brazil, climate and other human-made environmental changes threaten decades-long efforts to fight a widespread and debilitating parasitic disease. Now, a partnership between researchers from ...

In Brazil, climate and other human-made environmental changes threaten decades-long efforts to fight schistosomiasis, a widespread and debilitating parasitic disease. Now, researchers have developed ...

Although the parasite that causes schistosomiasis multiplies within aquatic snails for part of its life cycle, it finds one particular snail to be an inhospitable host. The unwelcoming snail is called ...

More than 200 million people have schistosomiasis, which is treatable but has been difficult to eliminate from some regions of the world. Schistosomes, the worms that cause this disease, grow within ...

(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 ...

What is schistosomiasis and how many people is it thought to affect each year? Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease, sometimes called bilharzia or snail fever. The disease impacts a huge number of ...

The World Health Organization recently highlighted schistosomiasis among a handful of parasitic diseases posing a major concern for the next decade. While you’re far more likely to encounter this ...

Satellite images, drone photos and even Google Earth could help identify communities most at risk for getting one of the world's worst tropical diseases. A team led by the University of Washington and ...