Female Genital Schistosomiasis:

Because Haematobium resides in the urinary and reproductive tracts it can be spread sexually. Infections typically show up as an UTI and are misdiagnosed as such.

Search: World Health Organization Female Genital Schistosomiasis for facts.

Schistosomiasis can also affect males as well as females. Cases are coming in about people with no travel history to subtropical areas contracting the disease from sexual partners in first world countries.

We are finding adult schistosomiasis worms in semen and vaginal samples in the U.K. and U.S.. Along with this we have taken urine samples and found miracidia from those same people. Miracidia are a juvenile form of schistosomiasis as it makes its way through the growth cycle.

Symptoms of an STD schistosomiasis infection will begin to show up 48 hours to a week later with increased urination accompanied with discomfort or pain. A sense of urgency to urinate every 2 hours is an indications that the human body is trying to expel a foreign object from the urethra.

Semen quality in Schistosoma haematobium infected men in Madagascar.

Acta Trop. 2009 Jan;109(1):41-4. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.09.010. Epub 2008 Sep 30.

Leutscher PD1, Høst E, Reimert CM.

Author information Abstract

The seminal vesicles and the prostate are frequently affected by egg-induced inflammation in Schistosoma haematobium infected men. The objective of this study was to assess the semen quality in men with male genital schistosomiasis (MGS). The examination of the semen samples was performed in men aged 15 to 49 years living an S. haematobium endemic area in Madagascar prior to anti-schistosoma treatment with praziquantel and five months later. Men from the high endemic Sirama sugarcane plantation with positive egg excretion in the urine and circulating anodic antigen (CAA) present in serum (n=85) were compared to men (without egg excretion and no CAA) from the neighbouring low-endemic Mataipako village (n=57). The proportion of men with egg excretion in semen was significantly higher in Sirama than in Mataipako (53% versus 4%), whereas the median ejaculate volume was significantly lower in Sirama (1.8 ml versus 2.4 ml). There was no statistical difference in median spermatocyte counts and in the proportions of men detected with azoospermia. The mean apoptotic rate was 7.8% in a subgroup of 30 men from Sirama. A positive correlation was found between apoptotic rate and seminal eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) level (rho=0.560; P<0.001). At follow up, egg excretion and ECP level in semen declined significantly and were paralleled by a significant reduction in the apoptotic rate. The study suggests that S. haematobium infection is associated with sperm apoptosis and a reduced production of seminal fluid. Egg induced inflammation in the seminal vesicles and the prostate could be underlying mechanism for both observations.

PMID:: 18950598
DOI:: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.09.010; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18950598?fbclid=IwAR1EJlu4cAoAFbqkTqw2hqysU1THXi3IdjEQUIWEfDggQk2GHaFO2JQgOtM

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