How You Can Help Stamp Out A Deadly Disease

This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them. Some events have a way of getting under our skin. (The bitter 2016 election comes to mind.) They consume our thoughts and conversations, dominate our news and social feeds, maybe even keep us up at night. But some problems, for whatever reason, fail to capture the world’s attention. Take sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease caused by the bite of a fly, that has plagued Africa for centuries. Sleeping sickness is fatal if left untreated, and the most recent epidemic reached its peak in 1998 with more than 38,000 cases across the continent. And until recently, the treatment for the disease’s advanced stages was sometimes lethal, killing, in a cruel twist, 1 in 20 people who received it.  Support the effort to stamp out sleeping sickness: It's not every day that you can help eliminate a deadly disease. Today, you can. Donate .wrapper{display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:center;}.dndi__background{height:250px;width:300px;flex:1 0 auto;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-bottom:30px solid #e65025}.dndi__header{display:flex;padding:15px 20px 0}.dndi__header_image{height:15px;padding-right:3px}.dndi__header_text{color:#fff;width:150px;height:19px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10px;line-height:1.9}.dndi__description{color:#fff;max-width:150px;margin:15px 20px;font-size:20px;...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news