• Question: What is the hardest stage in a Parasitic disease?

    Asked by liliane to Deuan on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Deuan Jones answered on 23 Jun 2010:


      This depends on the disease, but in the disease I work on – African Sleeping sickness – parasites start living in your blood which causes a severe recurring fever – so that’s when you probably feel the worst. But later the parasites get into the fluid around your brain and you enter into a coma and eventually die (unless you get treated).

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