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Disease: Sleeping Sickness

Last update: May 2005

Intro

Sleeping sickness is a devastating disease where tsetse fly stings inject parasites that infect the brain. Since the 1920s, pharmaceutical research has introduced many medicines to treat it. The industry continues its investigations and is collaborating with the World Health Organisation to try and eradicate this scourge.

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