Courtney Nickle
November 20,2009
12:01 a.m
Trypanosomiasis is also known as sleeping sickness and since that is such an easier thing to type that is what we will go by on this blog. Sleeping sickness is a very fatal disease which targets your central nervous system, change your personality, cause confusion, slur your speech, cause seizures, and can cause difficulty in walking and/or talking. Those things that I just listed are the after effects if your can get treatment. If you don’t catch the disease in time you will die from it. The way the disease is transmitted is by a tsetse fly which bites you in which the bite turns into a red sore. Then you should watch out for the later side affects of a fever, swollen lymph glands, aching muscles, and joints, headaches, and irritability. It is said the only way to contain the sleeping sickness is by reduction of tsetse flies and by an early diagnosis of the disease when you get bitten.
The worse part of this disease is that is it a painful thing to go through and there is no vaccines to give to the people that live near the woodlands and thickets of the savannah. Once you get bitten and can make it to a doctor you still have a slight chance of surviving and if so you still can be left handicapped. Hopefully a vaccine will be provided for theses people and disease like the sleeping sickness and like the others I have mentioned wont have to be worried about anymore.
http://www.who.int/topics/trypanosomiasis_african/en/
http://www.healthmap.org/en
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19911988?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2010/chapter-5/human-african-trypanosomiasis.aspx
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