Why is sleeping sickness so harmful?

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Why is sleeping sickness so harmful?

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Sleeping sickness is also called African trypanosomiasis. It is a disease caused by a protozoan species that affects the nervous system of humans. The disease is in humans is caused by Trypanosoma bruce gambiense that is transmitted by the vector tsetse fly. 

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The pathogen has an incubation period during which symptoms do not appear. After the infection, the person develops only a few symptoms with fever and headache.

 

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