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Poverty-stricken minors predisposed to schistosome infections due to unwholesome water contact activities.
Children from poverty-ravaged homes engaging in unwholesome water contact through fishing, bathing and fetching water for domestic use at Ayingada rural slum in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria. It is obvious this is a potential breeding ground for suitable snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes which excrete astronomically large number of infective larval form called cercaria. The location is known for a poor network of Mass Drug Administration with Praziquantel. In some of the areas covered, the drugs were rejected due to spurious sentiments. Atalabi et al.
Image Credit: Umar Lawal
Citation: (2017) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 11(4) April 2017. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(4): ev11.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v11.i04
Published: April 28, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Lawal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Children from poverty-ravaged homes engaging in unwholesome water contact through fishing, bathing and fetching water for domestic use at Ayingada rural slum in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State, Nigeria. It is obvious this is a potential breeding ground for suitable snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes which excrete astronomically large number of infective larval form called cercaria. The location is known for a poor network of Mass Drug Administration with Praziquantel. In some of the areas covered, the drugs were rejected due to spurious sentiments. Atalabi et al.
Image Credit: Umar Lawal