sleeping sickness

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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

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A critical assessment of the colonial obsession with sleeping sickness in: Lyons, Maryinez (1992), The Colonial Disease, A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Source: Internet

Pushed into the interior of the island and decimated by alcohol addiction, venereal disease, smallpox, and sleeping sickness, the indigenous Bubi population of Bioko refused to work on plantations. Source: Internet

Drug advances for sleeping sickness included Germanin and tryparsamide. Source: Internet

Endemic diseases, such as sleeping sickness, were all but eliminated through large-scale and persistent campaigns. Source: Internet

From 1900 to 1920, a sleeping sickness epidemic killed more than 250,000 people. citation Independence (1962 to 1965) Uganda gained independence from Britain in October 1962 as a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Source: Internet

Health and education initiatives Under British rule, efforts were undertaken to fight the Tsetse fly (a carrier of sleeping sickness ), and to fight malaria and bilharziasis ; more hospitals were built. Source: Internet

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