Sleeping sickness is caused by two germs (protozoa), Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosomoa brucei gambiense . The more severe form of the illness is caused by T. b. rhodesiense .
Tsetse flies carry the infection. When an infected fly bites you, the infection spreads through your blood.
Risk factors include living in parts of Africa where the disease is found and being bitten by tsetse flies. The disease does not occur in the United States. But travelers who have visited or lived in Africa can have the infection.
The following are Signs and Symptoms that you have been visited by a Tsetse fly.
General symptoms include:
- Anxiety
- Drowsiness during the day
- Fever
- Headache
- Insomnia at night
- Mood changes
- Sleepiness (may be uncontrollable)
- Sweating
- Swollen lymph nodes all over the body
- Swollen, red, painful nodule at site of fly bite
- Weakness
Source: NYTimes and Tbthealth
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