Robyn Williams: In villages around Uganda and other places in Africa, small creatures infect thousands to make their lives a misery. Dr Russell Stothard is at the Natural History Museum at London, and ...

Treatment. Currently, there is no bilharzia treatment for children below five years. This means they are at more risk than those above five years and adults, yet they have a lot of contact with ...

Children of women harboring the bilharzia (schistosomiasis) worm during pregnancy are more likely to suffer the infection by the age of five years, a new study has found. Children of women harboring ...

The world's first medicine formulated to treat a damaging tropical parasite infection in preschool children received the green light Friday from Europe's drug agency. Schistosomiasis, also known as ...

Fishermen at Katosi landing site prepare to go fishing. Wading through fresh lake water puts people at risk of Bilharzia infection. Photo by Paul Menya Emmanuel Kizito has been forced to abandon ...

South Africa's rural women are at the heart of the country's HIV/Aids pandemic, but according to a University of KwaZulu-Natal research team bilharzia is making them even more prone to contracting HIV ...

South Africa's rural women are at the heart of the country's HIV/Aids pandemic, but according to a University of KwaZulu-Natal research team bilharzia is making them even more prone to contracting ...

The bilharzia-causing parasite, Schistosoma mansoni, first infected humans as they fished in lakes in East Africa and was spread, first to West Africa and then to the New World by slave traders in ...

Bilharzia is a chronic disease, endemic in parts of Africa and South America, and is caused by infestation with blood flukes - leaf shaped, unsegmented flat worms calle schistosomes. What is bilharzia ...

A parasitic disease known as bilharzia, or schistosomiasis, has infected more than 200 million people, but scientists in northern Senegal say they have made a breakthrough in treating it. Bilharzia is ...

Machakos Deputy Governor, Francis Mwangangi (center) receives an intestinal worms tablet from a health worker during the launch of Mass Drug Administration at Machakos Stadium on June 7th 2023.

A study published in August 2020, in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal indicates that children in the breastfeeding bracket are also at high risk of getting sick from bilharzia. Titled ...