Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a
schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at
Case Western Reserve University here.
This article describes the first reported
cases of canine
schistosomiasis in the Midwest and the first reported
case of intestinal intussusception secondary to
schistosomiasis.