trypanosomiasis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trypanosomiasis
First recorded in 1900–05; trypanosome + -iasis
Example Sentences
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And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.
From Nature ● Dec. 19, 2019
Last year, 2,184 cases of sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis, were reported worldwide, down from 6,747 in 2011.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
African sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a microscopic wormlike parasite spread exclusively by the tsetse fly.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 23, 2016
As a result, the WHO made sleeping sickness, or Human African trypanosomiasis, a public health priority as one of 17 neglected tropical diseases.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2015
Even such things as psoriasis and parotitis and trypanosomiasis, which are now household names, were known only to the few, and were quite beyond the reach of the great mass of the people.
From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen
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