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Sleeping Sickness free - Kenya
August 15 , 2025
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- WHO certified Kenya as free of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.
- Kenya became the 10th country to achieve this milestone in eliminating sleeping sickness.
- Human African trypanosomiasis is caused by protozoan parasites spread by infected tsetse flies.
- The disease causes fever headaches joint pain and in advanced stages leads to confusion sleep disruption and behavioural changes.
- Kenya earlier eliminated Guinea worm disease and was certified free of it in 2018.
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