IVORY COAST

The threat
sleeping sickness continue
to loom large acrow I
areas of Africa,
Ivory Coast, Togo and 74
Health professiona6 in la
Coast and Togo min"
that hard economic
and diversion of fitmnew scourges such as A
have pushed the attack
the disease carrying tsetse fly
and early identification
infected people down the
Sea sickness
Priority list of governments and international organizations alike. Felix Doua, who ons a clinic in Ivory Coast,say 'on the list of dismisses that preoccupy governments,sleeping sickness last.

According to Simon van
Niuwenhove, a Belgian
Sleeping sickness expert,
xas an epidemic as
dim of 1900, which
milhou people. In
epidemic has been
up Jim several years
IM000 people are
m6cted - 70 per
if ibe population in
lbpm lUose affficted
so die unless they
weetment, which
IvoryCoast
I# mported only 400
who ym, but a rare
commmm uncovered
4 in just one district.