They found the animals had contracted sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, an illness spread by tsetse flies, Patnaik said.
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Arsphenamine, as well as neosalvarsan, was indicated for syphilis and trypanosomiasis, but has been superseded by modern antibiotics.
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Eradicating the tsetse and trypanosomiasis problem would allow rural Africans to reclaim areas of their continent and greatly increase food production.
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The family Glossinidae, monotypic as to genus, contains the tsetse flies, economically important as the vectors of trypanosomiasis.
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The main approaches to controlling African trypanosomiasis are to reduce the reservoirs of infection and the presence of the tsetse fly.
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For example, Tsetse flies, a vector of African Trypanosomiasis ( sleeping sickness ), are attracted to blue colors.
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Many diseases such as Human African trypanosomiasis, Nagana disease in cattle, and Chagas disease are caused by kinetoplastid parasites.
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There, he befriended a well-known Brazilian epidemiologist, Carlos Chagas, who in 1909 had discovered American trypanosomiasis.
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By 1896, African trypanosomiasis had killed up to 5, 000 Africans in the village of Lukolela on the Congo River.
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Arsenic is also a component of melarsoprol, a medicinal drug used in the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.
