What Is African Sleeping Sickness?
8. Deadly
African sleeping disease is a very dangerous disease indeed, and treatment is necessary in order to help save the patient’s life. Because the tsetse fly is mainly found in rural areas of Africa, it also means that people with the disease are unlikely to have access to the treatment they need.
In addition to a lack of medical care, poor education on the subject can also make matters worse. In many cases, people are not even diagnosed in time as they don’t what symptoms to look for. Screening tests in Africa have helped countries to control the disease to a degree, and blood smear tests have helped medical teams to diagnose the condition.
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