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  2. Schistosomiasis - Wikipedia

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    Estimates regarding the number of deaths vary. Worldwide, the Global Burden of Disease Study issued in 2010 estimated 12,000 direct deaths [78] while the WHO in 2014 estimated more than 200,000 annual deaths related to schistosomiasis. [5] [7] Another 20 million have severe consequences from the disease. [79]

  3. Extinction risk from climate change - Wikipedia

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    The report concluded that global warming of 2 °C (3.6 °F) over the preindustrial levels would threaten an estimated 5% of all the Earth's species with extinction even in the absence of the other four factors, while if the warming reached 4.3 °C (7.7 °F), 16% of the Earth's species would be threatened with extinction.

  4. List of deadliest animals to humans - Wikipedia

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    Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater snails ...

  5. Freshwater snail - Wikipedia

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    Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs to major rivers.

  6. Gastropod-borne parasitic disease - Wikipedia

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    The transmission of schistosomiasis occurs through the penetration of the skin by cercariae, the free-swimming infective form of the parasite, which are released by infected freshwater snails. Once inside the human body, the cercariae migrate to the blood vessels and develop into adult worms, which live in the veins surrounding the bladder and ...

  7. Biomphalaria glabrata - Wikipedia

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    Biomphalaria glabrata is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.. Biomphalaria glabrata is an intermediate snail host for the trematode Schistosoma mansoni, which is one of the main schistosomes that infect humans. [2]

  8. Tropical disease - Wikipedia

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    yellow skin, seizures, coma, death Schistosomiasis / ˌ ʃ ɪ s t ə s ə ˈ m aɪ ə s ɪ s / [7] [8] (snail fever, bilharzia, "schisto") 1975 Schistosoma flatworms (blood flukes) freshwater snails: throughout the tropics 252 million (2015) 4,400–200,000 abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, blood in the urine.

  9. Climate change and invasive species - Wikipedia

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    Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. pp. 49– 91.