Bela Rosa, a small sugar mill located in the county of São Lourenço da Mata, state of Pernambuco, is a typical sugar production unit of the large sugar cane belt along the humid and hot coast of northeast Brazil. The Bela Rosa's 370 inhabitants are living under very low social and economic levels. Known by its high prevalence rates for the disease, the region has been subjected to different types of control programs recently. Using data from 1967 to 1986 plus those from an epidemiological cross-section survey carried out in 1989, the authors describe the evolutional tendency of schistosomiasis endemicity in the area.
Schistosomiasis; Epidemiology; Prevalence Rates; Pernambuco; Brasil
