Without quick diagnosis and treatment,
sleeping sickness is usually fatal, as the parasites invade the central nervous system.
Eventually, I did some tests there and that's when it came back positive for trypanosomiasis, which is also known as
sleeping sickness.
Serodiagnosis of
sleeping sickness in the Republic of the Congo: comparison of indirect immunofluorescent antibody test and card agglutination test.
As the plot develops, ties appear among John Hobbes, the
sleeping sickness, and a darker problem, which promises to surface more in future books.
The strange
sleeping sickness in the Kalachi village of Kazakhstan was first registered in March 2013.
Naviaux, MD tested the effect of suramin, used to treat trypanosomiasis or African
sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease and found that suramin blocked the extracellular signaling pathway used by ATP and other mitokines in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ending the cell danger response and related inflammation.
Each year, across Africa,
sleeping sickness kills tens of thousands of people and billions of pounds worth of lifestock.
Preliminary results show that the drug, already used to treat
sleeping sickness, corrects autism-like symptoms in mice.
By focusing upon
sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) and its specialists, Neill traces the dissemination of medical knowledge across national and imperial borders during a time of increasing tension and warfare in Europe (1890-1930).
A recent survey on HAT in Benue state showed that the areas surveyed were no longer endemic for
sleeping sickness (7).
Morphologically, both are indistinguishable but differ in clinical course and geographic distribution, East African being more rapidly progressive disease as compared to West African
sleeping sickness.
Hence,
sleeping sickness became
sleeping sickness of the soul.
