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You are watching Sleeping Sickness Season 4 Episode 6

Experts thought Sleeping Sickness had been destroyed decades ago. But it's back with a vengeance. Kill or Cure journeys to the Democratic Republic of Congo to see the devastation Sleeping Sickness causes. Without treatment sufferers face almost certain death. Whole communities have been crippled by the disease. Mobile teams are in the field carrying out rapid blood tests and lumber punctures to identify and beat the disease.

• On site 07 September 2008
• Air date 01 January 2006
• Produced for BBC World

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Keywords

• african trypanosomiasis,
• neglected disease,
• health,
• africa,
• infectious disease,
• Sleeping Sickness