| Some common ailments affecting the Congolese include malaria, parasites, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, diarrhea, AIDS, and malnutrition. |
| These can be infected with water-borne parasites such as schistosomiasis, which is responsible for the disease bilharzia. |
| Other causes of bladder infections include parasites such as schistosomiasis, and fungi such as candida, which causes thrush. |
| Action starts now to control disease due to schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. |
| Water-related diseases cause 80 percent of all the world's sicknesses, in the forms of hepatitis A, malaria, diarrhea, dysentery and schistosomiasis. |
| Another report says that the plant contains asparagusic acid which is nematocidal and is used in the treatment of schistosomiasis. |
