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African Sleeping Sickness
About African Sleeping Sickness
The parasite invades the brain, disrupting sleep cycles until patients slip into coma. An old treatment was an arsenic derivative. Case counts fell from around 40,000 in 1998 to under 1,000 through screening and vector control.
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