Other health concerns include environmental diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis, and onchocerciasis (river blindness).
Prakash's dream is that this ultra-low-cost microscope will someday be distributed widely to detect dangerous blood-borne diseases like malaria, African sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis and Chagas.
However broadening, such travels put people increasingly at risk -- not only from accidents and intestinal bugs but from resurgent malaria, yellow fever, cholera, dengue fever, African sleeping sickness and schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease often contracted from contaminated rivers and lakes.
Guinea worm, sleeping sickness, bilharzia (which doctors call schistosomiasis) and the others rot tissue and cripple the organs.
Malnutrition, tuberculosis, cholera, measles, a variety of gastrointestinal problems, and tropical diseases such as malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis, and sleeping sickness are endemic in many parts of the country.
Endemic diseases include dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis, malaria, meningitis, schistosomiasis, and sleeping sickness.
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They include lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, schistosomiasis and Chagas disease.
Of serious concern are a high rate of trachoma and occasional outbreaks of malaria, bilharzia (schistosomiasis), and cholera.
High prevalence and presumptive treatment of schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis among African refugees.
His recent and current work is on human papillomavirus, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, and H.I.V.
