snail intermediate hosts and related material for schistosomiasis research. SSR is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He mentioned that following Uganda, arpraziquantel will be introduced in other schistosomiasis-endemic countries like Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal.

In a quiet corner of the Museum’s basement, a genetic archive of parasite and snail samples is supporting ground-breaking research into schistosomiasis, a disease that affects over 250 million people ...