BILHARZIA BLUES: AN INTEGRATED ART/BIO APPROACH TO SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN EGYPT, ETHIOPIA AND NEPAL

This film is not as dry as the title implies. It is a lively and informative look at the terrible beauty of a waterborne disease, Schistosomiasis, or Bilharzia, which Irland has been investigating as an artist for two decades. In each country Irland works with local musicians who compose and play new songs about an unusual topic Bilharzia that are sung in Arabic, Nubian, Nepalese, and Amharic accompanied by traditional instruments. 2009 (19:35)

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Education

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• Bilharzia
• Blues

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Bilharzia is now rampant on Lake Victoria, with the (introduced in 1856) Nile Perch having all but eaten all the small fish which used to eat the snail-host. Now there are millions of snails all over, & you can get bilharzia just by washing your hands in lake water. Not like it was in my childhood, & very sad! See my video from the past.