How a country wiped out sleeping sickness - the disease where a deadly drug is the cure
This is what happens when sleeping sickness is left untreated, and before it inevitably kills you. The disease was once ...
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Sleeping Sickness
SLEEPING SICKNESS, or African lethargy, is a disease the history of which we can trace back no further than 100 years. The first description that we know of is that of Winterbottom, who ...
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WHO Delivers Safer Treatment for African Sleeping Sickness
Rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is endemic in 13 countries across eastern and southern Africa. This acute form of sleeping sickness progresses ...
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‘The tsetse fly is attracted to the color blue’: How Guinea has managed to eliminate sleeping sickness as a public health problem
declared that sleeping sickness had been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea. After being the country with the most cases in West Africa in the early-2000s, by 2024, Guinea only registered ...
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Guinea joins Ghana, Chad and others in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease transmitted through the bite of infected tsetse flies. Early symptoms include fever, headaches ...
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Sleeping sickness eliminated as public health problem in Guinea
Conakry: Sleeping sickness ... The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The Trypanosoma parasite ...
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Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness as a public health problem
CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World ...