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African Trypanosomiasis

Websites
Detailed information from the World Health Organization.
http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/tryp/

Information about two forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which afflicts over 66 million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/224/Trypano.html

Information about the East African and West African forms of Trypanosomiasis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trypanosomiasis/

Article suggests that an ancient ancestor of trypanosomes merged with a type of green algae.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-3.html

Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Trypano.html

Combines forces of FAO, IAEA, WHO, AU/IBAR and other relevant stakeholders concerned with the tsetse and trypanosomiasis problem. Includes disease information and maps.
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/paat/home.html

Article by Kitonga P Kiminyo, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2140.htm