It's an elegant solution: Remove the habitat of a parasite-carrying aquatic snail and reduce the level of infection in the local community; all while generating more feed and compost for local farmers. A collaboration of scientists from the United States and Senegal focused on doing just that by removing overgrown aquatic vegetation from areas upstream of the Diama Dam in northeastern Senegal. In doing so, they generated positive impacts to the local communities' health and economies. "It is rare and gratifying when we can find a potential win-win solution to both human health and livelihoods," said UC Santa Barbara geography professor David López-Carr, a co-author of a paper that appears in the journal Nature .

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