African trypanosomiasis

Alternative names 
Sleeping sickness

Definition

Sleeping sickness is an infectious parasitic disease carried by tsetse flies and characterized by inflammation of the brain and the covering of the brain (meninges).

see Sleeping sickness.

Johns Hopkins patient information

Last revised: December 4, 2012
by Janet G. Derge, M.D.

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