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The disease name is African trypanosomiasis.

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These are some of the first symptoms of African trypanosomiasis.

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Treatment for African sleeping sickness is antiparasitics. Age,weight and stage determines which medication you are treated with.

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Tourists, hunters, and others working in or visiting game parks along with villagers who have infected cattle herds are at risk. Most cases are found in central Africa.

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How do you get African sleeping sickness?

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How do you get African sleeping sickness?

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It is caused by a protozoan parasite.🦠 it is transmitted by infected tsetse flies.

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It is extremely rare with less than 1,000 US cases a year.

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East African sleeping sickness is short-term and may last several weeks to months. Compared to West African form that usually causes death with 2-3 years.

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How African sleeping sickness got its nickname

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How African sleeping sickness got its nickname

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The disease can cause disturbed sleep patterns which earned it the nicknames African sleeping sickness or sometimes called sleeping sickness.