Reanalyzing the 1900-1920 sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda.(Perspectives)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Coleman, P.G.; Fevre, E.M.; Maudlin, I.; Welburn, S.C. | Copyright information

Sleeping sickness has long been a major public health problem in Uganda. From 1900 to 1920, more than 250,000 people died in an epidemic that affected the southern part of the country, particularly the Busoga region. The epidemic has traditionally been ascribed to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, a parasite now confined to central and western Africa. The Busoga region still reports sleeping sickness, although it is caused by T.b. rhodesiense, commonly believed to have spread to Uganda ...

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