Part 5: Diagnosis Video

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African Sleeping Sickness Video 1

Questions- answer on your paper

1. How does the parasite avoid the immune system?
2. How does the parasite kill the victim?
3. What is a protozoan? How is a protozoan parasite different from bacteria and multi-celled parasites such as intestinal worms?
4. How do people become infected with T. brucei? What are the risk factors as far as behavior, lifestyle, and geographic location?
1. Why does T. brucei infection cause the symptoms that led to the term “African Sleeping Sickness”?

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