A: Vaccine development for schistosomiasis faces multiple challenges. One major obstacle is the complexity of the parasite’s life cycle, as Schistosoma species have evolved sophisticated immune ...

Once these flatworms are in the body, they develop into adult schistosomes and a person is then said to be suffering from Bilharzia or ... the parasite’s life-cycle. Those that remain become ...

Museum researchers are working with collaborators across the globe to treat sufferers of schistosomiasis and develop a plan to stop the cycle altogether. Scientists working in the field are using the ...

Contextualising schistosomiasis (bilharzia ... where the snail vectors involved in the parasite life cycle live. Mass drug administration, or ‘preventative chemotherapy’, is the large-scale ...