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African Sleeping Sickness
African sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease of people and animals, resulting in swelling of the brain caused by protozoa of Trypanosoma brucei and transmissible by the tsetse fly. It is an endemic disease of sub-Sahara African regions, covering 60 million people in 36 countries.
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What is a risk factor for developing diabetes?
- Relatives with the condition
- Inactive lifestyle
- Being overweight
- Delivering babies larger than 9lb
- Gestational diabetes
- High cholesterol levels
- Diet high in sugars and high GI carbohydrates
Shock, trauma, or grief can bring on diabetes too. My father-in-law was diagnosed shortly after his wife of 53yrs passed away. I have also had a friend diagnosed with this disease shortly after shock and trauma in her life.
Risk factors of diabetes include genetics and family history, pancreas diseases, infections in the body, illness, and obesity.
Is African sleeping sickness contagious?
Yes, sleeping sickness is treatable, but the patient needs to be followed up for relapses, as treatment is not always successful. Some of the damage to the brain (which occurs in the later stages) can't be reversed.
Pentamidine or suramin are usually used. Melarsoprol (toxic) and eflornithine (not easily available) can be used as well.
Organ affected by African sleeping sickness?
The Tsetse Fly causes a lot of the cases, probably around 50,000 people have it in Ethiopia alone, maybe more.
How do you stop ankle swelling?
You can wrap your ankle tightly every night or any chance you get , that should help
Malaria is endemic in many parts of the world and almost 300,000,000 people suffer from it. About 500,000 to 800,000 die because of it. Mostly in Africa and below 5 years old children. It is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality, in tropical countries. This parasite now belongs to protozoa family but probably evolved from plant kingdom. It is transmitted by bite of infected Anabel's mosquito. In case of amoeba it belongs to protozoa and entmoeba hystolytica is pathogenic in man. It is transmitted by fecal-oral route. Active form is not infective. There are many people carrier of this protozoa. They are chronic carrier. They pass cyst in feces and ingested by victim due to poor hygiene. African sleeping sickness is transmitted by infected tsetse fly. As name suggesed in is common in most of the sub-saharan countries.
What are facts about the African sleeping sickness?
This disease will make you the ugliest person in the world. The best part about the disease though is that you will become a model once it is cured. But it will only happen if you can cure in less than 24 hours. If it is not cured in 24 hours you will stay ugly. So if you have this disease dont take your sweet time find it and cure it. Thank you come again.
What insect carries the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness?
Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness, African lethargy or Congo Trypanosomiasis are all names for the same disease of people and animals which is caused by a parasitic protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei, transmitted by the bite of the Tsetse Fly.
What protists is known to cause African sleeping sickness?
The protist Trypanosoma causes African Sleeping Sickness.
What are the 10 most common diseases in the countries?
a beaver diesase is one.it is when you are at a lake and beavers are having babies and the youll get a really really really bad stomich ache just go to doctors eduction channel that will tell you every disease
What causes African sleeping sickness and giardiasis?
The Tsetse fly is a vector for Trypanosomatid (trypanosomosis - human sleeping sickness) .
Which age group is affected most of African Sleeping Sickness?
adult babies childrens
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How do you prevent african sleeping sickness?
African sleeping sickness is caused by trypanosoma gambiense, which is a parasite that lives in the large intestine. Washing hands thoroughly and making sure food is fully cooked and clean before eating will prevent this sickness. Steps you have probably heard before.
When you are hot you get pins and needle feeling in your back and stomach?
I heard feel that too I haven't done much research but I found out that they are called shingles or something like that... Sorry I can't help a bit more but it's like an invisible rash.
Maybe scientist are looking for a virus that can go in the body to kill the cancer cells and make them burst so they are on there way and if you want to help go to the American cancer society and donate to help fight against cancer
What do you do to survive the African sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse flies?
For individuals which are infected by T. b. gambiense, which accounts for 98% of all of the reported cases, a person can be infected for months or even years without signs or symptoms until the advanced disease stage, where it is too late to be treated.
The specific drug and treatment course will depend on the type of infection (T. b. gambiense or T. b. rhodesiense) and the disease stage. Pentamidine, which is the recommended drug for first stage T. b. gambiense infection, is widely available in the U.S.
What are the diseases caused by flies in man?
the disease caused by fly are mainly dihhorea,cholera,tubercolosis ,loose motions,.generally the communicable disease are spread by flies
What are symptoms of Stage II sleeping sickness?
.speech becomes slurred.mental processes slow.patient sits and stares for long periods of time,or sleeps. Other symptoms resemble Parkinson's disease.imbalance when walking.trembling of the limbs, involuntary movements.muscle tightness.coma.
What does a white blood cell count of 18000 mean?
infection most likely
A normal white blood count is between 4,500 and 10,000 anything above 10,000 can be a slight infection to the high the wbc, more advanced, like perhaps pneumonia. You should always see a doctor if you are running a fever above 100 degrees to determine whether your white count could be a serious infection.
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