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Article: Cluster of African trypanosomiasis in travelers to Tanzanian National Parks. (Dispatches).
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be at low risk for African trypanosomiasis; however, nine cases of the disease associated with these parks were recently reported. The outbreak was detected through TropNetEurop, a sentinel surveillance network of clinical sites throughout Europe.
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African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), a serious infection caused by a protozoan (Trypanosoma brucei), is usually spread to humans by the tsetse fly via infected animals and humans. Although the World Health Organization has reported a dramatic increase in incidence in Africa, the disease has remained a rare but well-documented cause of fever ...