Additional
Information: Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma, which are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.).
African Trypanosomiasis Sites:
Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis: Information about two forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which afflicts over 66 million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. (African Trypanosomiasis) http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/224/Trypano.html
African Trypanosomiasis African Trypanosomiasis: Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention. (African Trypanosomiasis) http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Trypano.html
Division of Parasitic Diseases - Trypanosomiasis Division of Parasitic Diseases - Trypanosomiasis: Information about the East African and West African forms of Trypanosomiasis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (African Trypanosomiasis) http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trypanosomiasis/
Sleeping Sickness Bug Swallowed a Plant Sleeping Sickness Bug Swallowed a Plant: Article suggests that an ancient ancestor of trypanosomes merged with a type of green algae. (African Trypanosomiasis) http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-3.html
Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis (PAAT) Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis (PAAT): Combines forces of FAO, IAEA, WHO, AU/IBAR and other relevant stakeholders concerned with the tsetse and trypanosomiasis problem. Includes disease information and maps. (African Trypanosomiasis) http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/paat/home.html
Additional
Information: Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma, which are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.).
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