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There have been a number of reports of water-borne disease outbreaks (especially schistosomiasis) following dam building, and this has become a widely cited mechanism by which land-use change leads to disease emergence. However, as Neil Morley points out in this issue, there is very little synthesis of how reservoir construction alters aquatic wildlife host-parasite interactions. This review examines the literature and concludes with a timely assessment of the likely impacts of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River’s parasite fauna. …