Crisis, what crisis? Control of Rhodesian sleeping sickness.
Welburn, Susan C;
Coleman, Paul G;
Maudlin, Ian;
Fèvre, Eric M;
Odiit, Martin;
Eisler, Mark C;
(2006)
Crisis, what crisis? Control of Rhodesian sleeping sickness.
Trends in parasitology, 22 (3).
pp. 123-128.
ISSN 1471-4922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2006.01.011
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There is an urgent need for cost-effective strategies for the sustainable control of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (Rhodesian) sleeping sickness, which is a fatal zoonotic disease that has caused devastating epidemics during the past century. Sleeping sickness continues to be controlled by crisis management, using active case detection, treatment and vector control - activities that occur only during major epidemics; during the intervening periods, farmers and communities must fend for themselves. There are several methods for assessing the burden of this disease and there is a series of farmer-led methodologies that can be applied to reduce the burden of human and animal trypanosomiases.