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This chapter looks at the history of the spreading of a very important life-threatening disease, which in former times was named bilharziasis, but now it is called schistosomiasis referring to the Greek terms schistos = divided and soma = body, which describes the fact that the male worm covers the female lifelong.
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Wu, Z. (2019). The History and Experiences of Schistosomiasis Control in China. In: Wu, Z., Liu, Y., Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Schistosomiasis Control in China. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25602-9_2
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