African Sleeping Sickness WisdomCard™

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  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: West African Trypanosomiasis | East African Trypanosomiasis cdc.gov - East African Trypanosomiasis
  2. World Health Organization: African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) who.int - African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
  3. Wikipedia: Sleeping Sickness en.wikipedia.org - Sleeping Sickness
  4. Doctors Without Borders: Sleeping Sickness doctorswithoutborders.org - Sleeping Sickness
  5. eMedicine: African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) emedicine.com - African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
  6. Central Dupage Hospital: African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness) cdh.org - African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
  7. University of Virginia Health System: African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness_ healthsystem.virginia.edu - African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness_
  8. A.D.A.M. (via MedlinePlus): Sleeping Sickness nlm.nih.gov - Sleeping Sickness
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Research Notes on African Sleeping Sickness


African sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis), is a systemic disease caused by a parasite and transmitted by the bite of a tsetse fly. There are two types of the disease, West African trypanosomiasis causes chronic infection lasting years, and is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. East African Trypanosomiasis causes acute illness lasting several weeks, and is caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Each year, worldwide, there are 20,000 new cases of both East and West African trypanosomiasis reported.

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