Is there malaria and sleeping sickness in Tanzania?
Unfortunately, yes for both. Zanzibar and the mainland coast can have a rather virulent strains of malaria. Take prophylactics before and after your visit. See your doctor for advise and the latest medicines. Symptoms of malaria are flu-like – aches, chills, fever, high temperature. Sometimes vomiting and diarrhea. if you should go down with these symptoms after having visited a malaria area, inform your doctor. Sleeping sickness, or Trypanosomiasis, is uncommon. Although most national parks have tsetse flies, it is very rare for anyone to contract sleeping sickness. The National Parks have introduced tsetse fly traps along the main roads. The traps have no ill-effects on birds or other wildlife that may prey on insects killed by the traps.
