Bruce Sleeping Disease And The Kivu And Tsetse Fly
Health Encyclopedia: Sleeping Sickness
Sleeping sickness is an infectious disease caused by certain flies, which results in swelling of the brain.
Alternative Names
African trypanosomiasis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Sleeping sickness is caused by two organisms, T. brucei rhodesiense and T. brucei gambiense. The more severe form of the illness is caused by rhodesiense. Flies called tsetse flies carry the infection. If an infected fly bites you, painful, red swelling occu...
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