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Title:Schistosomiasis in twentieth century Africa: historical studies on West Africa and Sudan
Author:Hartwig, Gerald WISNI
Year:1984
Language:English
City of publisher:Los Angeles, Calif.
Publisher:Crossroads Press
ISBN:0918456541
Geographic terms:West Africa
Sudan
Subject:schistosomiasis
Abstract:Shistosomiasis is generally a chronic, debilitating disease, without spectacular outbreaks or conspicuous mortality. Its diffusion was greatly facilitated changes begun or accelerated in the colonial period. The authors study its incidence and impact as well as the successes and failures of methods employed against it. Appendix: Recommendations (on the basis of the Seminar and the first International Symposium on Bilharziasis held in Egypt in May 1962).
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