Animal And Animal Trypanosomiasis Proceedings 1980

Abstract

The first cases of human trypanosomiasis of the new outbreak this year in Lambwe Valley were reported by the Division of Disease Control and Research of the Kenya Ministry of Health in the, 1980, when 6 cases were clinically diagnosed at Horra Bay Hospital. Following this initial confirmation of a new outbreak, 19 cases were reported in July 1980, and a further 14 in August 1980. Additional cases were reported in the subsequent two months, and it looks certain that all these cases point to an important sleeping sickness outbreak in Lambwe Valley.