Among human parasitic diseases, schistosomiasis (sometimes called bilharziasis) ranks second behind malaria in terms of socio-economic and public health importance in tropical and subtropical areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

This will also reduce contact with water bodies that have been polluted by excretia, reducing the risk of disease including bilharziasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [17. Environmental Sanitation] Reference

See also: bilharziasis sector distinct part of the economy e.g. health, agriculture, natural resources, economic planning, water resources, industry, private sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Anopheles mosquitoes type of mosquitoes that may transmit malaria and rural filariasis arbovirus an arthropod-borne virus, i.e. a virus that is transmitted by insects, ticks or mites bilharziasis see: schistosomiasis cost-effectiveness analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

They include ones against AIDS, whose pandemic, which is extremely serious in certain countries, counteracts development attempts, malaria which affects one and a half million Africans, and tuberculosis and bilharziasis, a disease which mobilizes specialists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille, in the valley of the Senegal river.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference