From Naples to Entebbe. 
Kavirondo, and making gigantic inroads even to the point of 
40,000 victims in one year. The sleeping sickness is especially 
fatal to men in the prime of life, and hence whole villages and 
MARKET, ENTEBBE. 
islands may be found tenanted by women and children who alone 
have survived. 
The British Museum Expedition mentioned in the preceding 
chapter, found in the district of Maniema, south of Ruwenzori, 
a multitude of natives stricken with the sickness and driven out 
from their villages, only to wander hither and thither in the 
country and die, untended, by thousands. 
Hospitals have been started and are increasing in number. 
Attempts are made to organize help and to encourage emigration 
from the infected districts towards those which are still healthy, 
but the means are utterly inadequate to grapple with the 
swiftness and the activity of this fearful plague. 
Sleeping sickness is caused by a parasite, a trypanosoma, 
discovered by Dr. Aldo Castellani in the brain of patients who 
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