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In 1901 an outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda rapidly assumed epidemic proportions. The Royal Society in London, alerted in 1902, sent a small Commission to Entebbe to investigate the cause of the...
In 1901, Dr M. Forde, a medical officer working in the Gambia, found parasites previously unknown to him in the blood of one of his patients. He consulted Dr Everett Dutton, a parasitologist visiting Gambia...
At the beginning of the century, a rapid number of discoveries revealed the cause of a tropical disease known as sleeping sickness. Depicts the imagined reminiscences of Sir Patrick Manson, the founder of...
One method of reducing the menace of trypanosomiasis to man and animals in Africa is to control the tsetse fly vector. The spraying of insecticide from aircraft or by teams on the ground is effective but...
Several of the 22 species of testse found in central Africa carry the trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domestic animals. The video presents the...
A unique record record of the ‘awakening’ of patients from 40 years of hopeless, silent ‘sleep’ to a vivid, full enjoyment of life, at least for a short period. The patients had been victims of the...
The typical rash of Gambian trypanosomiasis is shown in two patients. They had developed two months after the appearance of a large purplish lesion on the ankle, which had been mistakenly diagnosed as...
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