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Human African Trypanosomiasis elimination
September 3 , 2020
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- Recently Togo has become the first country in Africa to eliminate human African Trypanosomiasis.
- Togo is a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea and it did not report any cases in the past 10 years.
- Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, is caused by parasites which are transmitted by infected tsetse flies and is only found in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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