A disease in which humans are parasitized by any of three species of blood flukes: Schistosoma mansoni, S.
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Examples for "schistosomiasis"
Examples for "schistosomiasis"
1However, no association between night soil and schistosomiasis was observed in 2010.
2Risk factors for schistosomiasis were assessed by administering a questionnaire to adults.
3Advanced liver fibrosis and portal hypertension due to chronic schistosomiasis are irreversible.
4Though common in tropical regions, schistosomiasis was absent around Lake Malawi until recently.
5Background: In Mozambique, schistosomiasis is highly endemic across the whole country.
1There's been an outbreak of bilharzia at a boarding school near Bremer.
2Most Africans from the lowveld have weak stomachs from having been infected with bilharzia.
3This water brings disease - bilharzia caused by parasitic worms and diarrhoea which can kill babies.
4The Nile appeared ahead, the great umbilical of the continent, the giver-taker, provider of flood and fertility, of commerce and bilharzia.
5She responded by saying "drinking from the Nile will get me schistosomiasis" - a disease commonly known as bilharzia.
1Some 280,000 people die from snail fever in Africa alone each year.
2El-Sayed led the team that sequenced the Schistosoma mansoni, one of the two major parasites that cause snail fever.
3Schistosomiasis or snail fever, which can cause deadly blood loss, affects hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, for example.
4They included " snail fever", or schistosomiasis, which is caused by a parasite and leaves people so weak they can't work.