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Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

Update: 2025-02-05
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As Guinea becomes the latest country to eliminate sleeping sickness, how close are we to defeating the disease completely?

Also on the program, what does a massive shakeup at the US Agency for International Development mean for global health? And a new discovery is shedding a bit more light on a neural fossil in our ears.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
Assistant Producer: Katie Tomsett

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Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

BBC World Service