PRO/AH/EDR> Trypanosomiasis – Kenya: (Western)

Trypanosomiasis — Worldwide/Unknown
Over 11 million people in Kenya are at the risk of being infected by sleeping sickness, a disease often transmitted by the tsetse fly to people in rural areas who depend on agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry and hunting.
“In Kenya, 38 out of 47 counties are infested with the tsetse fly,” Dr. Pamela Olet, CEO of the Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council, told Anadolu Agency. She said sleeping sickness was endemic to the Lake Victoria Basin region, which includes Kenya,