What Is African Sleeping Sickness?
4. Affects Animals
To make things even worse the parasites can also infect animals, which are also fed upon by the tsetse fly. This can include both domestic animals and wild animals, and animals can act as a reservoir host for the species that can infect humans.
Most wild animals have a natural tolerance to the disease and will suffer few, if any, symptoms. This is not the case in domesticated animals, however, and it can be fatal to them in some cases. This only makes things harder for people that are often already living in impoverished conditions and for whom livestock is very valuable.
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