{"id":77435,"date":"2025-07-15T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77435"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:13:29","slug":"how-a-country-wiped-out-sleeping-sickness-the-disease-where-a-deadly-drug-is-the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/15\/how-a-country-wiped-out-sleeping-sickness-the-disease-where-a-deadly-drug-is-the-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"How a country wiped out sleeping sickness &#8211; the disease where a deadly drug is the cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zDcyl.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A screening camp for sleeping sickness in Guinea (Picture: Brent Stirton\/Getty Images for DNDI.)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before you know it you are awake all night, chucking books across rooms and laughing uncontrollably. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/how-a-country-wiped-out-sleeping-sickness-the-disease-where-a-deadly-drug-is-the-cure\/ar-AA1zDo0h?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=687624d3c21e49e3b5a8ba6a2452d98a&amp;ei=16\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Before you know it you are awake all night, chucking books across rooms and laughing uncontrollably. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dr-Wilfried-Mutumbo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77437,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77435\/revisions\/77437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}