Glossary for African Sleeping sickness

• Brain symptoms: Symptoms affecting the brain
• Cardiomyopathy: Any disease of the heart muscle
• Chancre: An ulcer like eruption that is located on an epithelial surface
• Coma: Prolonged unconsciousness
• Death: The cessation of life
• East African Trypanosomiasis: East African sleeping sickness from the tsetse fly
• Encephalitis lethargica: A rare brain disease characterized by fever, headache, lethargy and reduced physical and mental responses. The disease occurred as an epidemic in the 1920's but now occurs sporadically - the exact cause is still not known.
• Extreme fatigue: A condition characterized by extreme tiredness
• Fever: Elevation of the body temperature above the normal 37 degrees celsius
• Heart failure: Slow failure of the heart (cardiac insufficiency).
• Irritability: Excessive feelings of annoyance or frustration.
• Malaise: General feelings of discomfort or being ill-at-ease.
• Parasitic Conditions: A condition that is characterised by another organism living off another organism
• Severe headache: A condition which is characterized by a severe headache
• Sores: Sores affecting the skin.
• Swollen lymph nodes: Swelling or enlargement of the lymph nodes
• Trypanosomiasis, east-African: A rare infectious disease caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and is transmitted through the bite of an infected Tsetse fly. The infection causes an acute illness with symptoms occurring from days to weeks after infection. Death relatively common, especially in untreated cases.
• West African Trypanosomiasis: West African sleeping sickness from the tsetse fly

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