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Why does T. brucei infection cause the symptoms that led to the term “African Sleeping Sickness”?

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African trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly. It gets its nickname 'sleeping sickness' because symptoms can include a disturbed sleep pattern

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