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Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development ...

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CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World ...