Captain Akbar (PhD)
CoFSM ordained Captain; Vector-Borne Disease Ecologist
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My current project for my PhD aims to investigate how pesticide pollution could affect human disease, particularly through it's influence on transmission of schistosomiasis. Our first publication demonstrates how pesticide pollution, when it makes its way into the freshwaters, can wipe out macroinvertebrates that compete with the schistosoma intermediate hosts, which are more tolerant to commonly used pesticides. The next step will be to investigate the effect of the pesticides on the parasite.
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