Volume 12, Number 5—May 2006
Historical Review
Spatial Analysis of Sleeping Sickness, Southeastern Uganda, 1970–2003
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Figure 3. Number of sleeping sickness cases and infected subcounties, southeastern Uganda, 1970–2003. Number of recorded cases refer to totals for southeastern Uganda. Sources: 1970–1971, D.B. Mbulamberi, unpub. data; 1972–1975 (18); and 1976–2001 (Ministry of Health, 2004).
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