African Sleeping sickness: Fly-borne African parasitic disease. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of African Sleeping sickness is available below.
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Prognosis for African Sleeping sickness: Good with treatment. Death within weeks or months if untreated
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An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
African Sleeping sickness is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that African Sleeping sickness, or a subtype of African Sleeping sickness,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list African Sleeping sickness as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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