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The Fatal Sleep (Paperback, 3rd New edition)
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The Fatal Sleep (Paperback, 3rd New edition)
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Loot Price R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
You Save R71 (21%)
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The bite of the tsetse fly - a burning sting into the skin - causes
a descent into violent fever and aching pains. Severe bouts of
insomnia are followed by mental deterioration, disruption of the
nervous system, coma and ultimately death. Sleeping sickness, also
known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is one of Africa's major
killers. It puts 60 million people at risk of infection, occurs in
36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and claims the lives of many
thousands of people every year. Transmitted by the tsetse fly,
trypanosomiasis affects both humans and cattle. The animal form of
the disease severely limits livestock production and farming, and
in people the toxic effects of the treatment for the brain disease
can be as painful and dangerous as the disease itself. Existing in
the shadow of malaria and AIDS, it is an overlooked disease,
ignored by pharmaceutical companies and largely neglected by the
western world. Peter Kennedy has devoted much of his working life
to researching sleeping sickness in Africa, and his
autobiographical account shares not only his trials and
experiences, evoking our empathy with the affected patients, but an
explanation of the disease, including its history and its future.
Interwoven with African geography, his compassionate story reveals
what it is like to be a young doctor falling in love with Africa,
and tells of his building of a vocation in the search for a cure
for this cruel disease.
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