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• Title: Mass-Treatment and Insecticide-Spraying of Animal Reservoirs for Emergency Control of Rhodesiense Sleeping Sickness in Uganda (Report)
• Author : Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 224 KB

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Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a devastating disease that kills all those infected unless treated. Sleeping sickness tends to affect the poorest and marginalized rural communities with least access to health care. The acute form of the disease caused by T.b. rhodesiense was first recognized in south-east Uganda in 1898 (1). This epidemic which lasted until 1915, led to the death of over 350,000 people in south-eastern Uganda alone. Subsequently, there were a number of sporadic outbreaks of the disease. However, in the 1940s, a second major epidemic of sleeping sickness began in south-east Uganda which led to 2432 cases and 274 deaths (2). The third major epidemic started in the 1970s and continued up to the end of 1980s (3). In 1988, sleeping sickness extended to Tororo and Busia districts at the Uganda-Kenya border during which 1180 cases were reported. This epidemic was brought under control by the end of 1990s (4). Southeast Uganda still remains the major focus of T.b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness with Glossina fuscipes fuscipes as the major vector (5). Recent reports indicate that the area affected by T.b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness has increased 2.5-fold since 1985 (4), extending further north into Soroti, Kaberamaido, Apac, Lira districts (6) and probably Gulu district. This northern spread of the disease could easily lead to the merger of the south-eastern T.b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness focus with the north-western T.b. gambiense focus. This is likely to complicate the epidemiology and control of the two forms of the disease. According to Simarro et al (7), T.b. rhodesiense cases reported in Uganda from 2000 to 2009 were: 300 (2000), 426 (2001), 329 (2002), 338 (2003), 335 (2004), 473 (2005), 261 (2006), 119 (2007), 138 (2008) and 129 (2009)7. Most of these cases were reported in Iganga, Soroti, Kaberamaido, Dokolo and Lira7. Most cases of T.b. rhodesiense are linked to livestock reservoirs7. Livestock reservoirs are important especially in south-east Uganda where these are responsible for over 50% of the reported cases of T.b. rhodesiense cases during the period 2000 to 2009 (7).

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