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Sleeping Sickness
Sleeping Sickness The Sleeping Sickness is a disease it is a disease that originated in Africa with the Tsetse Fly, which would bite you to infect you. There are many ways that you would know that you have the disease called Sleeping Sickness. For instance you might have a fever or head ache things like that would probably be some of your symptoms. The way you could transfer the Sleeping Sickness from person to person is to kiss, have sex, or anything like sexual contact. In Africa the Africans tried to eliminate the Tsetse Fly so that no one else would have to get the Sleeping Sickness. They have found a drug that can cure the disease but only in the first stages of the disease it will not work in the later stages it has been known to sometimes slow the process down a bit. Some of the people in Africa have grown an immune system to the bite of the Tsetse Fly because it's been around for thousands of years.
The way that the Sleeping Sickness gets around is through the Tsetse Fly. Which will bite you to give you the Sleeping Sickness disease. When the Tsetse fly bites you it goes through your blood streams for a while until it finds the nervous system that will effect you with the beginning stages the disease will stay in your body until you die or until you get heeled clearly. The first stages of the Sleeping Sickness are high fevers that will reach up to over a hundred degrease which will be very painful. After the high fevers you would get very bad headaches from the bite you would also be sweating extremely a lot. You would also experience a sudden weakness in the body from the fevers and headache. After the weakness you would notice that you have very swollen Lymph Nodes. Then you would have a very bad rash. You would probably have the rash on your whole body may be even in the private areas of the mid section. This disease needs a warm blood stream to live a make its host ill from the bite. The disease is a worm like motion...
