Is a disease that attacks the nervous system and result in long sleep often difficult to control it. The patient usually ends death if not treated. The spread of the disease in Africa and therefore is also called (African sleeping sickness or human African trypanosomiasis) and infects humans and animals .
Etiology:
Cause disease is a type of single-celled parasites called trypanosomes, a form of Dodi and redundant terminal called the whip. There are two types of trypanosomes (Trypanosoma rhodesiense) and (Gambian trypanosomiasis) and is infected by tsetse flies scattered on the shores of lakes and rivers, where infected T. fly from the blood of an infected person or animal during feeding, and multiply
Trypanosomiasis within the stomach of the insect and moves to the salivary glands and humans can become infected when they bite insect .
Symptoms:
Vary the speed of the development of symptoms according to the type of Trypanosoma causing it. Overall Valmthagabiyat Rhodesian cause symptoms progressing faster than that caused by Gambian trypanosomiasis. The symptoms begin sleeping sickness, fever, headache, chills, followed by a tumor in the lymph nodes and skin rash and weakness. In severe cases evolve injury of the central nervous system, causing sleep you can not control, and then coma and death.
التسميات
sleep