trypanosomiasis

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And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.

From Nature • Dec. 19, 2019

As recently as 10 years ago, the main treatment for human African trypanosomiasis was an arsenic-based drug named melarsoprol that killed 5% of those treated with it.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 16, 2018

Last year, 2,184 cases of sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis, were reported worldwide, down from 6,747 in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2017

As a result, the WHO made sleeping sickness, or Human African trypanosomiasis, a public health priority as one of 17 neglected tropical diseases.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2015

A positive reaction may be present in other diseases, for example, frambesia, trypanosomiasis, and leprosy.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis