“…Personal experience with specific treatment for schistosomiasis as a strategy for control -It has already been proven that large-scale specific treatment for schistosomiasis in endemic areas (excluding the cases with contraindications) can reduce the prevalence of infection over the short term, as well as the morbidity due to the disease over the medium and long term (Jansen 1946, Sette 1953, Rodrigues da Silva 1958, Kloetzel 1963, 1972, Bina & Prata 1974, Prata 1976, Katz et al 1977, 1992, Machado 1982, Conceição et al 2002, 2007. This advance can then be consolidated through repeated treatments (Coura 1995, Coura & Amaral 2004.…”