Rapid communications Schistosoma haematobium infections acquired in

A 12 year-old boy in Germany developed urinary schis-tosomiasis in January 2014. He had bathed in rivers in south-eastern Corsica five months earlier. Before this case, human schistomiasis had not been reported on the island, although its vector, the snail Bulinus trun-catus, locally transmitted the zoonotic Schistosoma bovis. The boy’s father excreted S. haematobium ova that were not viable; the boy’s three siblings had a positive serology against schistosomes. Schistosomiasis cases reported in Germany in 2014 In January 2014, a 12 year-old German boy noticed painless excretion of bloody urine. He was referred by his paediatrician to a nearby urological hospital where ultrasonography showed focal thickening of th