What Is African Sleeping Sickness?
10. Treatment
While African sleeping sickness is often deadly, it is a treatable disease. It is important to identify and treat the disease as soon as possible because doing so will make treatment easier. When the condition is treated in the earlier stages, the medications used are easier to use and have fewer side effects.
Once the disease has reached the second stage, treatment becomes significantly more difficult. Powerful drugs will likely need to be administrated intravenously over several weeks. The drugs can also cause some very unwelcome side effects. In some cases, the drugs might even result in killing the patient themselves.
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