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Schistosomiasis is the second most common parasitic disease in the world after malaria - with 90% of cases in Africa.
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After all, there has never been a vaccine against any parasitic disease.
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The next goal with Guinea worm is to stop transmission of the parasitic disease in southern Sudan, which reported 2, 690 cases in 2009.
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Sometimes the heroic medical interventions he describes are futile: A desperately sick illegal immigrant a Guatemalan woman who arrived in the U.S. with a parasitic disease affecting her heart is given a heart transplant, but after the operation she dies anyway.
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In some ways, the most recent push for New Jersey oysters can be dated to the early 1990s, when the industry was struck by the parasitic shellfish disease known as Dermo, which didn't affect humans.
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Hospitals, labs and research facilities buy the kits to test for conditions including streptococcus bacterial infections, mononucleosis, parasitic diseases, lyme disease, herpes, chicken pox and shingles, as well as E. coli, transplant infections and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia.
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Hotez and his team of 35 researchers are currently working on vaccines for hookworm infection and schistosomiasis, a chronic disease caused by parasitic worms.
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Somewhere in the middle may be schistosomiasis, a debilitating disease caused by a parasitic flatworm carried by water snails, which affects 200m people worldwide.
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