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Diseases » African Sleeping sickness » Summary

What is African Sleeping sickness?

Contents

African Sleeping sickness: Introduction
Types of African Sleeping sickness
Prognosis
Complications
Other names for African Sleeping sickness
What causes African Sleeping sickness?
What are the symptoms of African Sleeping sickness?
Can anyone else get African Sleeping sickness?
How is it treated?
Society issues for African Sleeping sickness
African Sleeping sickness: Introduction

What is African Sleeping sickness?

African Sleeping sickness: Fly-borne African parasitic disease.
African Sleeping sickness: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness.
Source - WordNet 2.1

African Sleeping sickness is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that African Sleeping sickness, or a subtype of African Sleeping sickness, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list African Sleeping sickness as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet

African Sleeping sickness: Introduction

Types of African Sleeping sickness:

Types of African Sleeping sickness:

Broader types of African Sleeping sickness:

How serious is African Sleeping sickness?

Prognosis of African Sleeping sickness: Good with treatment. Death within weeks or months if untreated
Complications of African Sleeping sickness: see complications of African Sleeping sickness

What causes African Sleeping sickness?

Causes of African Sleeping sickness: see causes of African Sleeping sickness
Cause of African Sleeping sickness: Spread by bites of the tsetse fly.
Risk factors for African Sleeping sickness: see risk factors for African Sleeping sickness

What are the symptoms of African Sleeping sickness?

Symptoms of African Sleeping sickness: see symptoms of African Sleeping sickness

Complications of African Sleeping sickness: see complications of African Sleeping sickness

African Sleeping sickness: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for African Sleeping sickness.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and African Sleeping sickness.

How is it treated?

Treatments for African Sleeping sickness: see treatments for African Sleeping sickness
Research for African Sleeping sickness: see research for African Sleeping sickness

Society issues for African Sleeping sickness

Hospitalization statistics for African Sleeping sickness: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and African Sleeping sickness:

0% (1) of hospital consultant episodes were for African trypanosomiasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
100% of hospital consultant episodes for African trypanosomiasis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
100% of hospital consultant episodes for African trypanosomiasis were men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
0% of hospital consultant episodes for African trypanosomiasis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
100% of hospital consultant episodes for African trypanosomiasis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
22 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for African trypanosomiasis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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