Schistosomiasis -- Philippines
Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia and snail fever is endemic in 12 regions and 28 provinces on the Philippines archipelago with a whopping 12 million Filipinos at risk for the parasitic infection, according to a Phil Star report.
With some 6.8 million people already exposed to the blood fluke, Dr Vicente Belizario, convener of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Study Group under the University of the Philippines-College of Public Health asks, "The Philippines has the most number of
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