Thousands of people in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania have been diagnosed with the blood fluke, schistosomiasis, or other parasitic worm diseases, according to local media reports. Officials in the...

In a follow-up to a report in May concerning a schistosomiasis cluster reported in France, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports Thursday that in June 2014, the French Institute...

I was looking at the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) annual calendar of health events happening in the country. Much to my surprise, since I never heard of it during my three decades in microbiology,...

The Agence Regionale de Sante Corse is reporting a cluster of the parasitic disease, schistosomiasis, in people who swam in a river in Southern Corsica, according to a press statement (computer translated). The...

The nation of Zimbabwe which had experienced a massive cholera outbreak that started in August 2008 is going through two additional infectious disease outbreaks in 2010. Though the cholera epidemic has...