Wanted
Trypanosoma spp. ~A.K.A. African Sleeping SIckness~
Description, M.O, and Hide Out:
- Parasitic Pathogen
- Looks like a thicker version of a microsopic heart worm
- Spreads using the tsetse fly as a host, entering humans when tsetse fly bites a human
- Stage 1. Found in the peripheral circulation
- Stage 2. Central nervous system
Signs he's near, Crime Stats, Effective Weapons to use Against Him:
Signs he's near, Crime Stats, Effective Weapons to use Against Him:
- Extreme fatigue, aching muscles and joints, personality changes, swollen lymph notes
- ARMED AND DANGEROUS
- If not taken care of victim could die within weeks, if really lucky, a couple months
- Lethal, It killed 9,000 people in 2010
- Young people are more likely to get it then older
- 90% of the cases are in Africa
- Treatment of the first stage is with the medications pentamidine or suramin
- Treatment of the second stage involves: eflornithine or a combination of nifurtimox and eflornithine for T.b.g.