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African Trypanosomiasis (Sore)

African Trypanosomiasis (Sore)

This photo shows a tender, painful sore that appeared at the spot where this person was bitten by a tsetse fly. Tsetse files transmit to people the parasites that cause African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) .

A. CRUMP, TDR, WHO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY