Trapping was done with between three and 60 traps set in villages that were affected bysleepingsickness.
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Often wrongly thought of as a disease of the past, the prevalence of humansleepingsicknessis increasing in many areas.
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Five hundred people were examined forsleepingsickness, but no case was found.
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Amongst these are some of the world's most important pathogens, notably those causing malaria andsleepingsickness.
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Yet epidemics only had a major impact on the rate of demographic decline in the years 1902-7 and 1917-19, whensleepingsickness, smallpox, meningitis and influenza mortality peaked.
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Greatly increased fly-human contact enabled acute local epidemics ofsleepingsicknessto occur, as trypanosomes were passed quickly through the human population by direct mechanical inoculation.
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Presence or absence ofsleepingsickness.
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For once overcome this politicalsleepingsicknessthat seems to paralyse us in the face of disasters that together we have the power to prevent.
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Sleepingsicknessis easy to recognise in the second phase, but treatment then is far more difficult.
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Tropical diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis andsleepingsicknessclaim millions of victims every year.
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The same thing applies with regard tosleepingsicknessand malaria—it is sanitation which is required.
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He was bitten by the glossina morsitans in the neck, the neck suddenly swelled up, he contractedsleepingsickness, and he is now dead.
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Friend's reference is tosleepingsickness(trypanosomiasis) not to sleepy sickness (encephalitis lethargica).
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Patients suffering fromsleepingsickness, leish-maniasis, dengue, trachoma and many others are given, too often, archaic drugs, some highly toxic, some ineffective.
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