Religion and gender behavior: understanding the variations in risk to urinary schistosomiasis among farmers.

Unlabelled: Urinary schistosomiasis is a chronic and acute disease that is widely spread among the poor. It is caused by blood fluke of the genus , and transmitted to humans through water related activities by way of skin penetration. While schistosomiasis is rarely fatal, it could impact negatively on the economy and health status of infected individual.