Sentences with phrase «schistosomiasis control»
«There is just no evidence that there is a problem,» says Kenneth Mott, head of the WHO's programme of schistosomiasis control.
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Upon graduating in 1975, I returned to Malawi, where I was eventually employed by the schistosomiasis control programme of the Ministry of Health in 1979.
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Our team's responsibility was to better understand and control schistosomiasis.
China's Ministry of Health, meanwhile, is trying to control schistosomiasis infections with a combination of drugs and applications of molluscicides, pesticides that wipe out the disease's snail carriers.
For now, the tool — a website app with a simple interface — pairs schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, with malaria and allows users to enter factors based on local conditions and political constraints to determine the outcome of integrating control measures.
«If you immunize people with an antigen that induces an immune response against schistosomiasis, there will likely be benefits not only in controlling the immediate infection but also a means to avoid bladder cancer.»
Attempts to control schistosomiasis by focusing on the snail hosts date to the 1950s, but earlier efforts involved either molluscicides — poisons — or the introduction of non-host snail species to eat or compete with the hosts.