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Currently, sleeping sickness is understood to have two stages: the early, stage 1, or haemo-lymphatic stage, which is when treatment is effective and relatively non-toxic; the subsequent late, stage 2, or encephalitic stage, when, sadly, current treatments are toxic and can be complex to ad...
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