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This chapter shows how fruitful European support can be, when medical and technical support is given as done by a group of German medical students and doctors in the fight against schistosomiasis in an African village.
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Mehlhorn, H., Stetzkowski, M., Withöft, KC. (2019). Konna: A Help for a Self-Help Project at the Niger River in Mali. In: Mehlhorn, H., Klimpel, S. (eds) Parasite and Disease Spread by Major Rivers on Earth. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29061-0_12
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