SLEEPING-SICKNESS IN AFRICA1

Sleeping Sickness Wakes Again

Sleeping sickness of horses was, as reeentiy as the IQSO's, the most devastating livestock disease in the United States. Horses died by the hundreds of thousands in the Midwestern United States, in California, and along the Atlantic seaboard at a period which coincided with the beginning of the sharp decline in the use of horses on the farm. Losses were so severe in some areas that the inevitab...

Sleeping Sickness in Principe Island

years' war against sleeping sickness in the Island of Principe, a Portuguese Island oft' the West Coast of Africa. The report has been written by Drs. da Costa, Saut Anna, dos Santos, and de A. Alvares, and has been admirably translated into English by Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Wyllie, f.k.g.s.. of the Indian Army (retd.). The population of the Island of Principe is between 4,000 and 5,000, and ...

Sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis

The Sleeping Sickness of Uganda

34 cases by the same method and found the Trypanosoma in 20 cases, or 70 per cent. An examination of 12 cases of other diseases including three of Trypanosoma fever in the same way gave negative results. The matter was then taken up by" Lieutenant-Colonel David Bruce, F.n.c.s., R A M C and Dr. David N. Nabarro, who had been deputed by the Royal Society to investigate sleeping sickness, and arri...

Late Stage Infection in Sleeping Sickness

At the turn of the 19(th) century, trypanosomes were identified as the causative agent of sleeping sickness and their presence within the cerebrospinal fluid of late stage sleeping sickness patients was described. However, no definitive proof of how the parasites reach the brain has been presented so far. Analyzing electron micrographs prepared from rodent brains more than 20 days after infecti...