Table 3.

In the baseball game against schistosomiasis—What inning are we in, and what is the SCORE?

	Home Team*	Visitors#
1st Inning	0+	2
2nd Inning	0	2
3rd Inning	1	2
4th Inning	2	0

* The Home Team is us—the scientists & public health workers fighting schistosomiasis

# The Visitors are the long term visitors—the schistosomes

+ Numbers indicate the number of runs per inning