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a history of sleeping sickness in kenya.gambian sleeping sickness entered what is now kenya from uganda in about 1901 and quickly spread along the kenyan shores and islands of lake victoria, reaching tanzania in 1902. by 1910 the disease had spread 25 miles inland along the kuja and migori rivers and their tributaries. sleeping sickness waxed and waned in these areas despite attempts to control tsetse fly populations by various methods. it was not until 1950, when the use of insecticides (ddt) applied by backpack sprayer proved succes ...19892694984
the epidemiology of human sleeping sickness in the lambwe valley, south nyanza, kenya.human infection with trypanosoma rhodesiense in the lambwe valley area of south nyanza, kenya, was first reported in 1959 although t. gambiense sleeping sickness had been the present there since the turn of the century. the two forms of the disease are associated with the presence of the tsetse glossina fuscipes, which is plentiful and widespread throughout the hinterland, including part of the study area, and g. fuscipes in the thickets near the shores of lake victoria and along some of the riv ...19724544822
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