African Trypanosomiasis Causes, Symptoms and its Treatment & Prevention.
African
Trypanosomiasis -
Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment,
prognosis, and prevention.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Trypano.html African Trypanosomiasis
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Detailed information from the World Health Organization.
http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/tryp/
Division of Parasitic Diseases - Trypanosomiasis -
Information about the
East African and West African forms of Trypanosomiasis from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trypanosomiasis/
eMedicine - African
Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) -
Article by Kitonga P Kiminyo, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2140.htm
Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis (PAAT) -
Combines forces of FAO,
IAEA, WHO, AU/IBAR and other relevant stakeholders concerned with the tsetse
and trypanosomiasis problem. Includes disease information and maps.
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/paat/home.html
Trypanosomiasis -
Information about two forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which
afflicts over 66 million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/224/Trypano.html
Sleeping Sickness
Bug Swallowed a Plant -
Article suggests that an ancient ancestor of
trypanosomes merged with a type of green algae. (January 28, 2003)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-3.html
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