Review of prevalence and distribution of schistosomiasis in Japan
Yokogawa, M., 1976: Review of prevalence and distribution of schistosomiasis in Japan. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 7(2): 137-143
After World War II there was an increase in the prevalence of schistosomiasis japonica in all of the endemic areas of Japan but a national control programme, including the use of molluscicides, lining of irrigation ditches through rice paddies with concrete and the reclamation of swampy areas by drainage and filling, begun around 1950, has drastically reduced the prevalence and distribution of the disease.