Patient with sleeping sickness. The disease attack-s the central nervous system, causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes is sleep patterns...
Patient with sleeping sickness. The disease attack-s the central nervous system, causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes in sleep patterns...
Patients have a characteristic gaze: expressionles-s and fixed, they have a slow shuffling gait and suffer from exhaustion ... These are typical...
Nurse taking a patient's pulse. The disease leads to physical and behavioral problems, seizures, mood changes: violent anger in alternation with...
Kionzo Treatment Center, 80 km South of Matadi. The team in charge of the Centre: Pierre Mvulu Ndomanlieno, his son Jean-Pierre Mvulu Mpemebele and...
Locally-made tsetse fly traps are effective but it is unrealistic to expect this single stratagem to get the better of the epidemic of sleeping...
This girl has had episodes of dementia during whic-h she became violent towards her mother. Very weak, the patient is now prostrate. The scabs on her...
Patient at Kionzo Treatment Center. The disease leads to physical and behavioral problems, seizur-es, mood changes: violent anger in alternation with...
Patient with sleeping sickness. The disease attack-s the central nervous system, causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes in sleep patterns...
Patient with sleeping sickness. The disease attack-s the central nervous system, causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes in sleep patterns...
Young sleeping sickness sufferer in comatose state; the disease leads to physical and behavioral problems, seizures, mood changes: violent anger in...
Patient with sleeping sickness, the disease attack-s the central nervous system causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes in sleep patterns and...
Kionzo Center. Treatment of sleeping sickness is long and painful. The drug used is corrosive and toxic, treatment alone kills between 5 & 10% of...
Kionzo Treatment Center. P.M.Ndomanlieno & family, his son now runs the Center so that the family has a source of pay, the father is retired and has...
Graph with data on sleeping sickness. The number of cases fell until the 1960s but then began to climb back up after Independence was achieved in the...
Locally-made tsetse fly traps are effective but it is unrealistic to expect this single stratagem to get the better of the epidemic of sleeping...
Locally-made tsetse fly traps are effective but it is unrealistic to expect this single stratagem to get the better of the epidemic of sleeping...各種病症, 睡覺
Patient with sleeping sickness. The disease attack-s the central nervous system, causing imbalance, slow shuffling gait, changes in sleep patterns...
Nurse carrying out a lumbar puncture on a patien-t whose blood test was positive, in order to determine the stage the disease has reached.
Nurse carries out a lumbar puncture, on a patient whose blood sample tested positive, in order to determine the stage the disease has reached.
Nurse carries out a lumbar puncture on a patient whose blood sample tested positive. The cooking pot was used to sterilize the needles.
After the blood test, if the result is positive a lumbar puncture is carried out on the villager concerned, and technicians examine the...
Mobile medical team sets up in a village. A blood sample is taken from each villager and tested with a reagent.
Mobile medical team takes a blood sample from each villager and subjects the sample to a test with a reagent.
When the mobile team arrives in a village, the villagers line up to have their necks examined for swollen glands.
One of the 35 mobile teams set up along the lines of Dr Jamot's teams of the 1930s. The teams scree-n for sleeping sickness. They reach the most...
One of the 35 mobile teams set up to screen for sleeping sickness in villages where the disease is rampant. The original teams were set up by Dr...
Equipment used to sterilize male flies: they are irradiated with cobalt isotopes that destroy the chromosomes in their spermatozoa.
At the IAEA laboratory in Austria, male flies are irradiated using cobalt isotopes. They are sterile once they have undergone this treatment.
While technicians examine blood samples under the microscope for presence of trypanosomes, villager-s anxiously await to be told their results.
Blood sample tested with a reagent: sample No.1 is positive: there is a precipitate. The next stage involves carrying out a lumbar puncture on the...
When the mobile team arrives in a village, the villagers line up to have their necks examined for swollen glands.
If the road is impassable, the teams abandon their vehicle. Only War really hinders them. The areas involved in conflict are centers where...
One of the 35 mobile teams set up along the lines of Dr Jamot's teams of the 1930s. The teams scree-n for sleeping sickness. They reach the most...
Dr Miaka Mia Bengue, Secretary General, Ministry of Health, in charge of the Central Trypanosomato-sis Bureau in Kinshasa.
Preparing food for the flies in the laboratory at Seibersdorf. They feed on blood heated to 37 degr-rees C which they suck up through a membrane that...
