There were 362
new cases of Sleeping Sickness in South Sudan in 2007.
Human African Trypanosomiases, also known as "sleeping
sickness," is a vector-borne parasitic disease. This disease
is transmitted to humans by tsetse fly bites which have
acquired their infection from human beings or from animals
harboring the human pathogenic parasites. In time, the
parasites cross the blood-brain barrier to infect the
central nervous system. Without treatment, sleeping sickness
is fatal.
Nearly
eliminated in the 1960s, sleeping sickness has made
a
comeback of epidemic proportions due to war, population
movements, and the collapse of health systems over the
past
two decades.
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