Blog. African Sleeping Sickness. Diseases: Angelo Giokas African Sleeping Sickness Causing Agent and Transmittance The causing agent of African Sleeping Sickness is the tsetse fly. Introduction :- African Trypanosomiasis, also known as "sleeping sickness” . The estimated number of people thought to have the disease is between 300,000 and 500,000. 22 of the countries are among the least developed countries in the world that have diagnosed cases of sleeping sickness. HAT caused devastating epidemics during the 20th century. T.corvi Corvids T.cruzi Humans, rodents, marsupials T.brucei sp Man, ungulates T.lewisi Rodents T.musculis Rodents T.microti Voles T.dionisii Bats T.equiperdum Equids .

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