Human African trypanosomiasis is endemic to parts of sub-Saharan Africa and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients who have visited or lived in Africa. We report a 2017 case of stage 2 Trypanosoma brucei gambiense disease in an emigrant who returned to China from Gabon.
Keywords: African sleeping sickness; China; Gabon; Human African trypanosomiasis; Shanghai; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; central Africa; fatigue; parasites; somnolence; travel; trypomastigotes; tsetse fly; vector-borne infectious.