Sleeping sickness in Kenya Maasailand
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Date
2011-10-27
Authors
Isaac, Sindiga
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Sleeping sickness is one of the most harmful diseases in East Africa and the tsetse an ecologically
important ecto-parasite and vector. In Kenya Maasailand both sleeping sickness and tsetse were
insignificant at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper examines the detailed
processes which brought about the expansion of tsetse and epidemic sleeping sickness in the
study area. It finds that changes in plant associations, ecosystem complexes, wildlife and human
ecology enabled tsetse and trypanosomiasis to spread easily and maintain their infestation in the
region. Such changes were initiated by British colonial interventions.
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