How to Use schistosomiasis in a Sentence

schistosomiasis

noun
  • Certain species that pose a threat to human health, such as the trematodes that cause schistosomiasis, have narrowed down their life cycle to just two hosts.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Take schistosomiasis, which is caused by parasitic worms living in fresh water in the tropics.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In the case of schistosomiasis, Sierra Leone has had a national control plan in place for almost a decade.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • Dams have also caused an increase in schistosomiasis in many countries, because snails live in the reservoirs and irrigation channels.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
  • According to the press release, the flatworm can cause canine schistosomiasis, which affects dogs' liver and intestines.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In this part of Ogun State, a third of residents screened at a urine testing clinic were found to have active schistosomiasis infection.
    — William McCarthy, NPR, 4 July 2026
  • Other schistosomiasis researchers were critical of this point.
    — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • While schistosomiasis is most common in Africa, this parasite is also found in the Caribbean islands and Brazil.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The parasite can cause canine schistosomiasis, an illness that affects the liver and intestines of dogs, according to Dillman.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • About 250 million people a year are infected with schistosomiasis.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Eradication is now a possibility for malaria, thanks to new vaccines, but no schistosomiasis vaccine exists.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But the rodents can spread a variety of human diseases, including bubonic plague, schistosomiasis, murine typhus, tularemia and leptospirosis.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • There are also ear, eye, nose and throat infections that can occur, and at beaches, skin parasites like flatworm — which causes schistosomiasis, commonly known as swimmer's itch — can be picked up from inland beaches.
    — Frank S. Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 5 July 2017
  • The island of Corsica has experienced its first-ever cases of schistosomiasis.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Scientists are mobilizing an all-female army to help stymie schistosomiasis, a sometimes deadly parasitic disease that affects millions of people every year.
    — Jillian Kramer, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The snails release schistosomiasis larvae, which can penetrate the skin of any human swimming or bathing in contaminated water and trigger all sorts of nasty health problems (including, rarely but often enough, death).
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The environment, therefore, is key to reducing transmission of schistosomiasis to people.
    — Chelsea L. Wood, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Another is looking into how the ecology of rivers, lakes and ponds that serve as access points for water collection affect the burden of schistosomiasis infection for people in West Africa.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease caused by a parasitic flatworm.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
  • King is already expanding his Robot Scientist fleet by producing Eve, which will autonomously design and screen drugs against malaria and schistosomiasis.
    — Lizzie Buchen, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2009
  • Malaria too was likely endemic in ancient Egypt and Nubia, alongside other diseases such as leishmaniasis and schistosomiasis.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • For example, if a pharmaceutical company developed an innovative treatment for schistosomiasis, it could be granted an extension on a patent for a profitable drug that treats erectile dysfunction.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • This is also a problem for vaccines under development for parasitic illnesses such as malaria, schistosomiasis, and hookworm infection, Bethony says.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Known as a Neglected Tropical Disease because of the lack of funding to fight it, schistosomiasis is a serious challenge for impoverished communities.
    — William McCarthy, NPR, 4 July 2026
  • Since the 1980s, efforts to eliminate schistosomiasis have primarily focused on distributing drugs to infected people.
    — Chelsea L. Wood, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The types of infections often seen in Texas and Gulf Coast areas include extrapulmonary and latent tuberculosis, strongyloidiasis, Chagas disease, and schistosomiasis.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Beyond the consumer applications, Professor Sagi has also been involved in research on using the prawns to combat schistosomiasis, a debilitating waterborne disease that affects around 200 million people worldwide, primarily in impoverished areas.
    — Lee H. Goldberg, Ars Technica, 10 May 2020

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