Welcome! Online: 106

Moldova



Snail Fever, Possible New Treatments

August 08, 2009
Subscribe to: RSS, Email

By Malcolm Brown

Public health officials are hoping that recent scientific progress will lead to new treatments for a debilitating and potentially deadly tropical disease, which affects more than 200 million people every year. Researchers completed the genetic blueprint of two species of parasite, which cause schistosomiasis; otherwise known as bilharzia, or snail fever.

VOA News

Video