Treatment include: Schistosomiasis is readily treated using a single oral dose of the drug praziquantel annually. There is still being research done on finding a vaccine.
Prevention: Prevention is best accomplished by eliminating the water-dwelling snails that are the natural reservoir of the disease.
Lifecycle: Schistosomes have a typical trematode vertebrate-invertebrate lifecycle, with humans being the definitive host.
Likelihood: A person living in Nigeria have a better chance of getting the parasite than people in the US.
Schistosomiasis