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Gambian sleeping sickness

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Gambia,

country in West Africa, bordering North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal.

Gambian sleeping sickness - caused by parasite Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted through bite of an infected tsetse fly. Synonym(s): trypanosomiasis

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