41. To combat sleeping sickness , many people were moved into new villages free from the disease. 42. We have very few treatment options for sleeping sickness , and all of them are toxic. 43. Nonetheless, tryparsamide became the drug of choice for chemotherapy of sleeping sickness for several decades. 44. Sleeping sickness , or human African trypanosomiasis, is spread by the bite of the tsetse fly.45. Hence the name of the disease : sleeping sickness . 46. All his African servants had fallen ill to sleeping sickness and die one after another. 47. Sleeping sickness begins with a tsetse bite leading to an inoculation in the subcutaneous tissue.48. Sleeping sickness is fatal unless treated and is spread in humans by the tsetse fly.49. Velten then takes the inspector to see sleeping sickness clinics; no cases have been reported. 50. The single-celled trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness spend their time cycling between humans and tsetse flies.
