"Schlafkranke im Hof des Hospitals in Sikonge" ("Peopel suffering from sleeping sickness in the yard of the hospital in Sikonge"). African people in the yard. Most of them are sitting on the ground, one or two persons are standing. A tree on the right. A bicycle is leaning against the tree. On the left the roof of a building. In the background a fence. Just in front of the fence an object that looks like an overturned table, it could be a pallet. The photograph is not listed in the Unyamwezi list of negatives.--Sleeping sickness is also called Human African Trypanosomiasis. It is a parasitic disease. The parasites occur in tsetse flies and are transmitted to humans by these flies. The tsetse flies acquire the parasites from human beings or from animals harbouring the human pathogenic parasites. Tsetse flies can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa but only certain species transmit the disease. Tsetse flies are mainly found in vegetation by rivers and lakes, in gallery-forests and in vast stretches of wooded savannah.
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