• INTRODUCTION
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SLEEPING SICKNESS

It was thought that Sleeping Sickness was nearly eradicated through vigorous colonial control programmes in the first half of the 20th century. Due to natural disasters, man-made conflicts and chronic underdevelopment the infrastructure and human capacity collapsed in countries like Sudan, and disease started to re-emerge. Nowadays many thousands die each year. And the lack of pharmaceutical research, low political priority and ongoing armed conflicts are not helpful for a better outlook. A tiny tsetse fly will continue to bite and transmit a parasite which eventually effects the brain making a human to sleep during daytime before dying.