What is another name for bilharzia?
Schistosoma haematobium el-Aini Hospital in Cairo recovered the adult fluke from a dead soldier. He named it "Distomum haematobium", for its apparent two mouths (now called ventral and oral suckers) and habitat of the blood vessel. He published the formal description in 1852. The genus "Distomum" (literally "two-mouthed") was created by Carl Linnaeus in 1857 for all flukes; hence, it was not specific. Another German physician Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach introduced a new name "Bilharzia haematobium" in 1856 to honour the discoverer. He also introduced the medical term bilharzia or bilharziasis to describe the infection. Unbeknown to von Hemsbach, a German zoologist
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