In traditional medicine, both leaves and roots have been used as a remedy for stomach ailments and a concoction of the roots for treating bilharzia, diarrhoea and pneumonia.
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It conducts operational research showing how interventions can be implemented and evaluated at the country level, for example enabling mass treatment of children for common infections such as hookworm and bilharzia.
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The lake behind the dam has led to high rates of bilharzia infection, and mercury run-off from gold mining nearby the dam has polluted the city's water supply.
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"Water Health Life " tackles problems with dirty water sources that can lead to diseases such as diarrhoea and bilharzia, with various practical solutions such as sinking wells and drilling boreholes.
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Bilharzias, or snail fever, is a parasitic disease caused by several species of trematodes ( platyhelminth infection, or " flukes " ), a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma.
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An ideal habitat for malaria-carrying mosquitoes, snails that cause bilharzia and for snakes, it is also a perfect hiding place for crocodiles, which prey on unwary humans and livestock.
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It's a sad commentary, Mr . Parzer wrote, that curing people of bilharzia with modern medicines is considered cheaper than preventing the illness simply by using endod berries, a natural prophylactic.
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Examples of those are malaria ( the most common ), yaws, bilharzia, hookworm infestation, leprosy, and ulcers of the leg ( acute or chronic ) " the biggest constant problem ".
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Connor once warned a patient about swimming in fresh water in Africa, because of the risk of getting schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease also known as bilharzia, or snail fever, but he swam anyway.
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There are two strains : the Lower Guinea strain and the Zaire strain . " S . intercalatum " is one of the major agents of the rectal form of schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia.
