Scientists from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have discovered two invasive freshwater snail species in Malawi, prompting concerns about snail-borne disease control in humans and animals. The snails were found during fieldwork as part of the Hybridisation in UroGenital Schistosomiasis (HUGS) project, which investigates snail-borne parasites called trematodes that can transmit the debilitating disease fascioliasis. […]

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