| As in other parts of Zambia, tropical diseases such as malaria, bilharzia, and intestinal worms are quite common among the group. |
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| These can be infected with water-borne parasites such as schistosomiasis, which is responsible for the disease bilharzia. |
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| Malnutrition is common, making it possible for tropical diseases such as malaria and bilharzia to spread. |
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| They also provide breeding grounds for the carriers of diseases such as malaria and bilharzia. |
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| How can we expect a man or a woman to do a full day's work if he or she is riddled with malaria, bilharzia or hookworm? |
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| Bilharzia is transmitted by bathing in water infected with bilharzia larvae. |
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| Some of the most common diseases are malaria, bilharzia, sexually transmitted diseases, tetanus, cholera, polio, and typhoid. |
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| He contracted bilharzia, then usually fatal, and wrote to his family asking for his body to be flown home and buried in the Varenne valley. |
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| More than 33,000 cases of cholera have been reported, while malaria, anaemia and bilharzia have ravaged the population over the last few months. |
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| A family history of the disease, or chronic infection with the tropical diseases bilharzia also increase the risk of bladder cancer. |
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| A serious bilharzia outbreak has hit Mazabuka district affecting the daily classroom attendance by pupils in the classroom. |
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| Schistosomiasis, or bilharzia, is a parasitic disease caused by trematode flatworms of the genus Schistosoma. |
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| These are called schistosomes and they cause a disease known as bilharzia. |
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| Would we not still see breast cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, Alzheimer's disease, etc as being the diseases attracting funding rather than bilharzia? |
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| However, her medical records indicate that she has bronchitis, TB, bilharzia, malaria, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and multiple coughs and colds, all due to sickle cell. |
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| Almost all Egyptian mummies contained parasites which caused amoebic dysentery and bilharzia, and mummies in the New World had whipworm and roundworm eggs. |
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| Our doctor warned us that we would be certain to contract bilharzia if we did so, since the disease was endemic throughout the lakeside population. |
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| Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is an epidemic disease characterized by the gradual destruction of the kidneys, liver and other organs by a parasitic worm. |
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| Poor water quality is at the root of various diseases: diarrhoea, bilharzia, dysentery, amebiasis, cholera and typhoid fever. |
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| The major pathogens found in urine can cause typhoid, paratyphoid and bilharzia. |
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| The one consolation is that, without the mass campaigns, many more people would have been killed by bilharzia. |
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| Their profit is dirty money, contaminated by the blood of the millions of people who die of dysentery, cholera, typhus, malaria and bilharzia. |
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| Some parasites, such as bilharzia, also require an intermediate host before becoming infectious. |
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| Although he was told by the doctor that he suffered from bilharzia, he did not receive any medicine. |
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| Schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a parasitic disease that affects 200 million people worldwide, half of them in Africa. |
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| When he finally went to see a doctor, he told him that there was some fluid in his liver, which was thought to be the result of bilharzia. |
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| Many children in the community got dysentery, typhoid, bilharzia and other water-related problems. |
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| Fruits are lethal for snails, some aquatic life including bilharzia fluke. |
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| I contracted bilharzia, others had dysentery, and others cholera. |
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| Some more NTDs included are Guinea worm, bilharzia, blinding trachoma, Chagas disease, leprosy and visceral leishmaniasis. |
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| Nevertheless, certain environmental issues remain important, in particular the reduction of flood agriculture areas, and the proliferation of aquatic plants, which particularly encourages the spread of bilharzia. |
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| She has been awarded for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical parasitic disease bilharzia which affects over 200 million people. |
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| With the creation of water bodies, there can be a potential increase in waterborne disease vector species such as mosquitoes and snails that transmit malaria and bilharzia. |
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| Studies have shown that in Africa, more than half the schoolchildren are stunted in height and are anaemic, and that in many areas most schoolchildren are infected with worms, bilharzia and malaria parasites. |
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| Also known as bilharzia or snail fever, schistosomiasis is a parasitic worm infection that leads to stunted growth and cognitive underdevelopment in children. |
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