Apart from malaria, schistosomiasis is the most prevalent parasitic infection in the world. It affects more than 200 million people in 76 tropical and subtropic

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

Helminths include one of the most diverse and geographically widespread groups of parasites which infect humans and animals. About 100 species have been reporte

Human schistosomes (blood flukes) are digenetic trematodes that spend the adult part of their life cycle in humans and a further part in aquatic snails. Despite