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River prawn habitats are widespread, and we estimate that 277-385 million people live within schistosomiasis-endemic regions where river prawns are or were present (out of the 800 million people who are at risk of schistosomiasis).
New Stanford research shows that the river prawn, a natural predator of parasite-carrying snails, proves effective at curbing the spread of schistosomiasis in West Africa.
Among the notable dishes are the river prawn salad with lemon grass, and deep-fried fish with tamarind and fresh mango sauce.
Both Mr. Thompson and our food-loving innkeeper had recommended that we order Apsorn's house specials: crab meat in curry powder and southern-style yellow curry with river prawn and lotus shoots.
For example, I am working on: 1) biological control of schistosomiasis by restoring a native river prawn that preys on the snail intermediate host, 2) models of disease transmission and how things like connectivity and environmental transmission affect dynamics and control, and 3) designing ecological solutions to disease that mutually benefit human health and the environment.
Fishing for the African river prawn, Macrobrachium vollenhovenii, in Senegal.
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Freshwater crustaceans include crayfish and some river prawns and river crabs.
We conclude that restoring river prawns could be a novel contribution to controlling, or eliminating, schistosomiasis.
A recent hypothesis argues that dams block reproduction of the migratory river prawns that eat the snail hosts of schistosomiasis.
The giant river prawns, which reach market size in six months, sell for five times the price of fish.
The dam blocked the annual migration of native river prawns (Macrobrachium vollenhoveni) that are voracious predators of the snail intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis.
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