African sleeping sickness
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African sleeping sickness is an infection caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. It is transmitted by the bite of a tsetse fly.
Sleeping sickness occurs only in equatorial Africa.
A painful bump or sore may form at the site of the fly
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