Schistosoma+haematobium

=Schistosoma haematobium= Travis Buice and Jeanette Jones

Symptoms
Schistosoma haematobium is chronic and can cause pain, infections of the kidneys, and cancer. Schistosoma haematobium has been existant for 4000 years and in Egypt represented a passage of adulthood, characterized by urinating blood.

Organisms responsible for the Disease
Schistosoma haematobium can be passed on by slow-moving or stagnant water with infected bulinus snails living there. The habitats for snails are created by damming of rivers or irrigation canals. Humans can also transmit it to other humans by urinating in frequently used water while infected.

Life cycle of Schistosoma haematobium The life cycle of S. haematobium can be characterized by it swimming earlier in the cycle freely until it finds an organism in which it can penetrate the skin and infect the organisms livers and kidneys and mature there, when it is matured it will then exit the body by either defecation or urination. The worm usually matures in a Bulinus snail before moving on to humans, but can be prematurely ingested by drinking the stagnant or slow-moving water.

Prognosis Schistosoma haematobium can be treated by the drug praziquantel. In order to prevent the infection of this parasite you can avoid stagnant or slow-moving water(swimming or drinking), avoid dumping human wastes into water resources, and reduce the damming of these important water sources.