Question

Write the symptoms and mode of transmission of sleeping sickness.

Answer 1

Sleeping sickness:

1. It happens due to Trypanosoma brucei.
2. It is a vector-borne disease.

Symptoms:

1. Pain in muscles and joints.
2. Swollen lymph nodes.
3. As the illness progresses, the host body loses weight.
4. Headache, fever, and rashes.

The modes of transmission are the following:

1. Bite of an infected tsetse fly.
2. The infection could also occur through the transfusion of blood.