schistosomiasis

wades, bathes or comes into contact with frsh water that is contaminated with a certian

species of snail infected with the parasites. Schistasoma eggs are deposited when a person

with schistosomiasis urinates or deficates into water containing snails of the genus bulinus.

After the eggs hatch, the parasites known as cercarae then enter their intermediate hosts,

the snails, by penetrating their skin. Once inside the cercarae lose their tails, and become

schistosomulae. The schistosomulae then live in pairs of males and females inside the

veins, especially the ones surrounding the bladder. Once mature, the parasites can lay

arround 150 eggs a day, the eggs then produce m

schistosomiasis, and another 600 million are at risk. Rural areas of some 74 countries have

ghana, over 90% of the children are infected.

Oxamniquine - used exclusively to treat intestinal schistosomiasis in Africa and South America

detection is using a blood sample, but this will not work untill six to seven weeks after the

deposited into the bladder and can be transfered into a fresh water source, where the cycle

of getting the parasite. These parts of the world include parts of Africa and the middle

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