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Schistosomiasis is sometimes called bilharzia or snail fever because the illness-causing larvae spend their nights tucked away in the shells of snails in freshwater lakes.
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Origin and Etymology of snail fever
from the snails which serve as intermediate hosts to the schistosomes causing the disease
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