Killing up to 200,000 people annually, schistosomiasis is one of the most deadly parasitic diseases in the world, second only to malaria. Soon, however, prawn aquaculture could be used to control ...

Prawn farming in Senegal may hold the key to eradicating a common and deadly parasitic disease. Researchers believe if the shell fish are reintroduced into the West African nation's rivers ...

Making sure certain rivers are fully stocked with prawns could prove to be an important contribution to fighting schistosomiasis. The parasitic worm disease, external is endemic in many parts of ...

He said the industry believed that the prawn species Penaeus Mondon — widely bred in Sri Lanka — would be affected by possible diseases if the new species were introduced. Mr. Nanayakkara said the ...

This reproductive organ is located in the cardiac region dorsal to the hepatopancreas (as seen in the diagram below) under the carapace ... prawn's reproductive organs and "not due to a viral ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Australian Prawn Farmers Association is trying to reassure consumers that the spread of the ...

In the largest-ever outbreak of the disease in Australia, infected wild prawns were detected in Moreton Bay just weeks after the disease shut down the thriving prawn farming industry in southern ...