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• n  an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected

• 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 infestation causes Bilharziasis (a form of schistosomiasis), resulting in passage of blood in the urine.
• Free schistosomiasis checkups and medicine stopped as well.

• bilharzia
• bilharziasis

News & Articles

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• UGA receives Gates Foundation grant
  ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the University of Georgia Research Foundation a $3.4 million grant to help fight a debilitating tropical disease. UGA officials said Tuesday the award will be used to expand research on how to eliminate schistosomiasis (shih-sto-som-eye-uh-sis), a disease caused by worms and contracted when people come in contact with ...
  July 3, 2013 - WDEF Chattanooga
• Research, Grant Tackles Tropical Disease
  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the University of Georgia Research Foundation a $3.4 million grant to help fight a debilitating tropical disease. UGA officials said Tuesday the award will be used to expand research on how to eliminate schistosomiasis, a disease caused by worms and...
  July 3, 2013 - Georgia Public Broadcasting
• UGA Will Use Gates Grant to Fight Tropical Disease
  UGA officials said Tuesday the award will be used to expand research on how to eliminate schistosomiasis (shih-sto-som-eye-uh-sis), a disease caused by worms and contracted when people come in contact with contaminated water.
  July 3, 2013 - 13 WMAZ Macon

Quotes

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• Elias Zerhouni in News-Medical.net
  New therapeutic agents are sorely needed if we hope to ease the burden of schistosomiasis on the world's health,said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD "These findings exemplify what academic researchers can accomplish with access to...
• Roy Anderson in Newswise (press release)
  Professor Roy Anderson from Imperial College London adds: "Although schistosomiasis is not an acute disease, it does eventually kill those suffering from it. In the past, most of the population in Africa did not live long enough for it take effect,...