Eliminating public health scourge can also benefit agriculture (IMAGE)

University of Notre Dame

Eliminating public health scourge can also benefit agriculture

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Researchers from the University of Notre Dame, in a study recently published in Nature, found that removing invasive vegetation at water access points in and around several Senegalese villages reduced rates of schistosomiasis by almost a third.

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