Bilharzia

Bilharzia has been largely eliminated as a result.

A community takes control 2011

Many children die of schistosomiasis also called snail fever or Bilharzia in Egypt.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

The Ministry of Health and Population announced that Bilharzia cases in the examined samples of rural population in 2001 were only about 4%.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

Bilharzia, or Schistosomiasis, is still a common disease in rural areas in Egypt but its occurrence has greatly decreased with the provision of improved drinking water to most rural areas, periodic examination of school children, free medical treatment and extension programs to educate people on ways of protecting against the disease.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

We are currently studying one of these -- schistosomiasis or Bilharzia -- over a 5,000 year period, in co-operation with the Egyptian Ministry of Health.

Under Wraps: Rosalie David in Conversation 2001

Bilharzia affects 15 percent of Swazi children but cannot be effectively combated because of a lack of funding, Swaziland's

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Bilharzia prevention and hydro-electric reservoirs.

Chapter 15 1996

Bilharzia, also known as schistosomiasis, is transmitted by the larvae of water snails, penetrating the skin and colonizing the blood vessels of the intestine.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Schistosoma larvae, infectious agents of Bilharzia, usually cannot survive more than two days of protected storage, provided suitable hosts (snails) are not present.

3. Technologies 1985

Everyone not living in a town where there is piped water is weakened by Bilharzia, a cure of which must be found and will cost millions and millions of dollars.

The Struggle for the Middle East 1957