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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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Sleeping sickness is also known as trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness.  Its caused by a small parasite that leads to a serious infection in the brain and the meninges the covering of the brain and spinal cord.  There are also To different types of parasite. The disease develops slowly and if the treatment gets delayed then its usually fatal.  The dangerous parasites are carried by the tsetse fly. Most of the time the tsetse flies are not infected with the parasite.  The disease is found in 36 countries of saharan africa.  However this disease is caused by trypanosoma brucei, a flagellate that lives in the blood of the host and excits in two sub-species. This disease is very dangerous and deathly how would you handle it?
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2014 at 9:42 PM

    No I'm pretty sure I couldn't handle slowly dying from a little bug. Its crazy that while I'm sitting at home people are dying painfully and slowly by the second while I could be helping all these kids just from a little money. And a kid could barley talk to say his last words as we speak is dying because the lack of care we have. And then all these commercial for donating money to kids, each of these commercials cost like $6,000,000 dollars but having that much money could have saved five thousand kids.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM

    There is really no way that I could think that can help this illness, because it such a successful disease that is very strong, Sleeping sickness is caused when the parasites starts to eat the glucose, or sugar in your body that is supposed to be used later on. If your did not have much sugar and energy, you will rest all day. This is why it is called "sleeping" sickness. Do you think that there will ever be a way to resolve this illness?

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2014 at 1:39 PM

    i would really hate to have this disease because i don't want to die painfully and slowly. if i had that disease i would do nothing all day just wait to die but i hope i never get that if i ever go to Africa when i go up. i hope there is a cure in the future so people wouldn't have to die.

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