THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: SLEEPING SICKNESS, ONCHOCERCIASIS, AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN GHANA, 1930–60

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...

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...

Unintended Consequences.

Sleeping sickness and the central nervous system.

Chronic African trypanosomiasis is associated with progressive behavioural deficits, for which there is a complex underlying central nervous system (CNS) pathology. This has been extensively studied in man and a range of experimental animals. An initial meningitis, which can occur quite early in the infection, is followed by a breakdown of the choroid plexus, movement of the parasite into certa...

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 ...