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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Ahh I think I'll just go to bed...

Thank you Michael for this topic idea. Sleeping sickness is a Deadly disease in Africa caused by the Tsetse fly. Sleeping sickness scientific name is Trypanosoma Brucei which is a parasite that is spread when the Tsetse fly bites another animal. Some symptoms are Uncontrollable sleepiness, fevers, headaches, mood changes and many other terrible symptoms. This disease occurs in 30 countries where there are tsetse flies! The latest epidemic of this disease occurred during 1970 and in recent years this disease has mostly been found in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. If you had this disease what would you do and why?

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  1. AnonymousMarch 6, 2014 at 12:19 PM

    Sleeping sickness also known as Trypanosoma is a vector borne parasitic disease which is fancy for transmitted by an organism. It kills a lot of people but it can also infect animals. Horses in the United States are getting infected. Who knows what that could lead to. If mosquitoes get the blood of those horses and spread the disease around. We could infected too.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 6, 2014 at 4:43 PM

    This Is sickness seems very sad and crazy!! How I would know if I had this sickness is I would get a rash from 2 to 10cm where the insect bit me. This rash will get tender, and swollen. At the same time you would be getting a fever. This sickness will start with confusion, sleeping during the day and awake at night, then they get mentally impaired, finally the bladder loses control, after that they will sleep a lot and very hard to wake up, then they go into a coma. If I was diagnosed (they diagnose you by blood sample) the doctors would give me four different types of medicine.

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