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Total Prevention: A History Of Schistosomiasis In Japan, Alexander Bay
Total Prevention: A History Of Schistosomiasis In Japan, Alexander Bay
History Faculty Articles and Research
In Japan, schistosomiasis was endemic in Yamanashi Prefecture and a few other hotspot areas where the Miya’iri snail lived. The parasite’s lifecycle relied on the intermediary Miya’iri snail as well as the human host. Parasite eggs passed into the agrarian environment through untreated night soil used as fertiliser or through the culture of open defecation in rural Japan. Manmade rice fields and irrigation ditches, night soil covered paddies and highly refined growing seasons put people in flooded rice paddies to intensively work the land in the spring and summer. The disease was equally dependent on human intervention in the natural …
Book Review: Urban Health | Emerging Public Health Perspectives, Demi Miriam
Book Review: Urban Health | Emerging Public Health Perspectives, Demi Miriam
Journal of Research Initiatives
Book Review
Book Title: Urban Health | Emerging public health perspectives
Editors: Fernandes & Grewal, 2021
Publisher: Global South Strategies
Publication: 02 September 2021
City: Mangalore, India
Total No. of Pages: 341
Price (in INR): 950 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-8195336418