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trypanosomiasis

[trih-pan-uh-soh-mahy-uh-sis, trip-uh-nuh-] / trɪˌpæn ə soʊˈmaɪ ə sɪs, ˌtrɪp ə nə- /


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In sub-Saharan Africa, diseases including trypanosomiasis and ehrlichiosis may have created serious obstacles for dogs.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.

From Nature Dec. 19, 2019

Last year, 2,184 cases of sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis, were reported worldwide, down from 6,747 in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2017

African sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a microscopic wormlike parasite spread exclusively by the tsetse fly.

From Science Magazine Sep. 23, 2016

Even such things as psoriasis and parotitis and trypanosomiasis, which are now household names, were known only to the few, and were quite beyond the reach of the great mass of the people.

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock




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