WHO declares Kenya free of deadly sleeping sickness after decades (www.rfi.fr)
from Leorhall@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 14:22
https://lemmy.world/post/34907614

Kenya’s success in the fight against deadly sleeping sickness marks a milestone in the African continent’s battle to eradicate neglected tropical diseases.

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gnutrino@programming.dev on 24 Aug 2025 14:27 next collapse

I don’t know, who does declare Kenya free of sleeping sickness?

Drusas@fedia.io on 24 Aug 2025 15:06 next collapse

I miss bad joke eel.

TheBat@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 16:00 collapse

Some woke organisation I guess

WindyRebel@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 16:07 collapse

Tell me, WHO is?!

Klear@quokk.au on 24 Aug 2025 16:51 collapse

No, it's just The Doctor.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Aug 2025 17:39 collapse

who?

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 15:24 collapse

wait, how? Last I checked we didn’t even know how it was spread, nor did we have a reliable treatment. This is huge, just weird to be this uninformed on the process of a super important medical development.

PlantJam@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 15:46 next collapse

Sleeping sickness – formally known as human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) – is a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly.

I don’t know how new this information is, though.

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shalafi@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 16:42 collapse

Don’t remember when I learned that but I was a kid, 80s or so.

homoludens@feddit.org on 24 Aug 2025 16:14 collapse

The causative agent and vector were identified in 1903 by David Bruce, and the subspecies of the protozoa were differentiated in 1910. Bruce had earlier shown that T. brucei was the cause of a similar disease in horses and cattle that was transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans).[66]

The first effective treatment, atoxyl, an arsenic-based drug developed by Paul Ehrlich and Kiyoshi Shiga, was introduced in 1910, but blindness was a serious side effect.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis#His…

Maybe you confuse it with something else (e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica )?

Warl0k3@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 16:23 collapse

Ah, I did indeed. Thank you!