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Sleeping sickness: Kenya hosts AU's InterAfrican Bureau global conference on Tsetse flies

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Tsetse fly that transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto]

More than 300 participants from across Africa are meeting this week in Kenya, to discuss ways of tackling the African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness or Nagana.

The disease is estimated to claim over 50,000 lives annually, while over 65 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are currently at risk of contracting it.

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