HumanAfricantrypanosomiasis(HAT),orsleepingsickness,isaparasiticinfectionthatisendemic insub-SaharanAfricaandisalmostinvariablyfatalunlesstreated. Theinfectionistransmittedtohumansthroughthebiteofaninfectedtsetsefly.Theparasite multipliesinthelymphandblood,causingunspecificsymptomsandsigns(first-stageorhaemo- ...
NAIROBI, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged African governments to come up with targeted interventions aimed at reducing the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the continent. Joyce Onsongo, the disease prevention and control officer at the WHO K...
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Chad for having eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem. It marks the first neglected tropical disease to be eliminated in the country. Chad is the first country to...
more commonly known as elephantiasis, onchocerciasis or river blindness, schistosomiasis, or bilharzia, as well as human African trypanosomiasis, often called sleeping sickness, chronic ulcers and other skin infections.
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Who Top 10 tropical diseases? They include dengue,rabies, blinding trachoma, Buruli ulcer, endemic treponematoses (yaws), leprosy (Hansen disease), Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, cysticercosis, dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), echinococcosis, foodbo...
Kissing bugs might sound sweet, but they’re carriers of the deadly Chagas disease,the American formof trypanosomiasis, or "African sleeping sickness.” The bugsbite hosts on the thin skinnear their eyes or mouth ("kissing” them) and leave behind droppings that infect through the wound. They...
Not to mention he didn’t want to hurt his image; if African-American female fans saw him with a white woman, it could potentially polarise his fans! In an interview, Washington explained went on to say that black women are not often seen as objects of desire on film, yet they...
In describing and understanding how the HIV epidemic spreads in African countries, previous studies have not taken into account the detailed periods at ris... PM Leclerc,AP Matthews,ML Garenne,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 57发表: 2009年 Population Dynamics of Sleeping Sickness: A Microsimulation...