Sleeping Disease
Common Name: Sleeping Disease
Scientific Name: Trypanosoma
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Specimen #: 53
Circumstance: Observed online
Specimen Condition: Specimen condition presumed dead
Location: Unknown (online)
Typical Habitat: The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in 36 countries containing more than 60 million people. A recent study estimates that the total African population at risk of contracting sleeping sickness is 69.3 million, with one third of this population being at a 'very high' to 'moderate' risk and the remaining two thirds at a 'low' to 'very low' risk.
Invasive? not invasive
Natural area of growth: The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in 36 countries containing more than 60 million people. A recent study estimates that the total African population at risk of contracting sleeping sickness is 69.3 million, with one third of this population being at a 'very high' to 'moderate' risk and the remaining two thirds at a 'low' to 'very low' risk.
Relationship with humans: Fever, headaches, joint pains, and itching.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis
Scientific Name: Trypanosoma
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Specimen #: 53
Circumstance: Observed online
Specimen Condition: Specimen condition presumed dead
Location: Unknown (online)
Typical Habitat: The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in 36 countries containing more than 60 million people. A recent study estimates that the total African population at risk of contracting sleeping sickness is 69.3 million, with one third of this population being at a 'very high' to 'moderate' risk and the remaining two thirds at a 'low' to 'very low' risk.
Invasive? not invasive
Natural area of growth: The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in 36 countries containing more than 60 million people. A recent study estimates that the total African population at risk of contracting sleeping sickness is 69.3 million, with one third of this population being at a 'very high' to 'moderate' risk and the remaining two thirds at a 'low' to 'very low' risk.
Relationship with humans: Fever, headaches, joint pains, and itching.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis