How much there is to know about Sleeping Sickness

I know that in Becca A's recent post she wrote about Sleeping Sickness. I kind of knew what that was, but didn't really know that much about it. This is when I decided to try and find out more information about it. This disease is found commonly in East and West Africa. There are two stages. The first is when the bug bites you. The disease is in your body, but hasn't crossed to the Central Nervous System. The second is after the disease goes to your Central Nervous system. This is when some of the symptoms start to show such as the place where you got bitten swelling up and getting red, lymph nodes all over your body, anxiety, change of mood, and severe drowsiness. If not treated you can go into a coma and die. If you show symptoms of sleeping sickness or in general just don't feel well you should go see a doctor immediately. The sooner you get treatment the less likely you are to have the sleeping sickness get severe. You should also have examinations a lot, so if you have a relapse of the disease it can be detected. If you were to visit Africa you should be really careful if you are in rural areas because that's where the disease is most commonly found. Basically if I went to Africa I would take a lot of safety measures against these diseases. If you went to Africa how would you make sure you weren't infected?