A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts these may be considered distinguishable categories.
African Sleeping Sickness
The Sleeping Sickness is a disease it is a disease that originated in Africa with the Tsetse Fly, which would bite you to infect you. There are many ways that you would know that you have the disease called Sleeping Sickness.”(Scott,2001)
Symptoms
You might have a fever or head ache things like that would probably be some of your symptoms. The first stages of the Sleeping Sickness are high fevers that will reach up to over a hundred degrease which will be very painful. After the high fevers you would get very bad headaches from the bite you would also be sweating extremely a lot. You would also experience a sudden weakness in the body from the fevers and headache. After the weakness you would notice that you have very swollen Lymph Nodes. Then you would have a very bad rash.
Contraction of Disease
The way you could transfer the Sleeping Sickness from person to person is to kiss, have sex, or anything like sexual contact. In Africa the Africans tried to eliminate the Tsetse Fly so that no one else would have to get the Sleeping Sickness. They have found a drug that can cure the disease but only in the first stages of the disease it will not work in the later stages it has been known to sometimes slow the process down a bit. Some of the people in Africa have grown an immune system to the bite of the Tsetse Fly because it's been around for thousands of years.................
