Snail Vector Disease

In terms of impact this disease is second only to malaria as the most devastating parasitic disease.

Snail vector disease. Importance of the snail in determining the epidemiology of the disease. Schistosomiasis also known as bilharzia is a disease caused by parasitic worms. Snail vector disease free vector images download original royalty free clip art and illustrations designed in illustrator. Millions of people in approximately 90 countries have suffered from sbpds in which snails serve as the transmitting vectors and intermediate hosts table 1.

Although the worms that cause schistosomiasis are not found in the united states people are infected worldwide. Schistosomiasis is considered one of the neglected tropical diseases ntds the parasites that cause schistosomiasis live in certain types of freshwater snails. On zanzibar the geographic distribution of urinary schistosomiasis in man is highly correlated with the distribution of populations of bulinusglobosus and bulinusnasutusis refractory to infection. Role of snails schistosomiasis is an acute chronic parasitic disease caused by infection with trematode worms of the genus schistosoma.

Many of vector borne diseases are preventable through protective measures and community mobilisation. Dry cough with changes on chest x ray fever fatigue muscle aches malaise abdominal pain enlargement of both the liver and the spleen. Snail borne parasitic diseases sbpds are major parasitic diseases that remain important public health issues worldwide particularly in impoverished countries. Apple snails ampullariidae are intermediate hosts of parasites causing at least three diseases in humans.

It is prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas especially in poor rural communities that have little or no access to safe drinkingwater and basic sanitation.