Rice-Fish Coculturing Shows Promise in Fighting Schistosomiasis and Poverty

Schistosomiasis affects over 220 million people globally, with rice farmers and their families experiencing higher disease prevalence and cycles of reinfection contributing to poverty.

In the rice paddies of rural Senegal, where the act of farming has long carried the hidden cost of disease, researchers have found that an ancient agricultural practice may quietly disrupt one of the world's most persistent cycles of poverty and illness. By introducing native fish into flooded fields, a team from the University of Notre Dame has demonstrated that snail populations — the carriers of schistosomiasis — can be suppressed not through chemical intervention or medical campaigns alone, but through the restored logic of a functioning ecosystem. The study, touching more than 400 househo

Rice-Fish Coculturing Shows Promise in Fighting Schistosomiasis and Poverty

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