Crisis, what crisis? Control of Rhodesian sleeping sickness.
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.
Welburn
Susan C
SC
Centre for Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK. sue.welburn@ed.ac.uk
Coleman
Paul G
PG
Maudlin
Ian
I
Fèvre
Eric M
EM
Odiit
Martin
M
Eisler
Mark C
MC
D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016833:Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology*