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In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 90 percent of village children are infected with a debilitating and potentially fatal neglected tropical disease called schistosomiasis. Around the world, more than 220 million cases persist, mostly in Africa,...

An international team of researchers, led by University of New Mexico Associate Professor Coenraad Adema, is now one step closer to eliminating a deadly parasitic disease responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year.

A new report published in “Science” explores the relationship between Helminth infection and birth rates in women from the Tsimane tribal community. The Tsimane are foragers-horticulturalists living in the Amazon lowland forests in Bolivia. The ...